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Giovanni Paolo Panini: Ancient Rome  wikidata:Q14619160 reasonator:Q14619160
Artist
Giovanni Paolo Panini  (1691–1765)  wikidata:Q286670
 
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Description Italian painter, architect and scenographer
Date of birth/death 1691 or 1692
date QS:P,+1691-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1691-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1692-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 21 October 1765 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Piacenza Rome
Work location
Rom, Emilia
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q286670

Details on Google Art Project
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Imaginary Gallery of Ancient Roman Art
Part of Ancient Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Series title Ancient Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: This painting, commissioned by the Count of Stainville (later Duke of Choiseul), depicts the count (at the center with a guidebook in his hand) and friends visiting an imaginary gallery in Rome. The artist Panini is behind the chair.
Date 1757
date QS:P571,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 1,721 mm (67.75 in); width: 2,299 mm (90.51 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,1721U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,2299U174789
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Level 2 (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Gallery 611 - 18th Century Italian Painting (European Paintings) (Details of room on Google Art Project)
Accession number
52.63.1
Object history
English: ?Hubert Robert (until d. 1808; sale, Paillet, Paris, April 5, 1809, no. 9, as "Rome antique" and "Rome moderne," each 64 x 72 pouces [68 x 77 in.], purchased by Paillet before auction for Fr 2,801); ?[Alexandre Paillet, Paris, 1809–14; posthumous sale, Paris, June 2, 1814, no. 47, as "Rome antique" and "Rome moderne", each 64 x 72 pouces, for Fr 1,000]; ?Casimir Périer, Paris; Arnold Baruchson, Liverpool (in 1857); A. Murray (until 1877; sale, Christie's, March 17, 1877, no. 115, "Ancient Rome," £152.5.0, to Lesser; no. 116, "Renaissance Rome," £189.0.0 to Waters); [Sedelmeyer, Paris, in 1896]; Camille Groult, Paris (until d. 1908); Groult collection (1908–52; sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, March 21, 1952, nos. 87 ["Rome Antique," 52.63.1] and 88 ["Rome au Temps de la Renaissance," 52.63.2], to Cailleux for MMA)
Inscriptions
English: Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower left, on pedestal): I· P· PANINI ROMÆ / 1757
Notes More info at museum site
References
  • "Choiseul(-Stainville), Étienne-François", vol. 7, p. 193, in The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner. London: Macmillan, 1996 (revised 1998).
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