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Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome)
Lot 215

Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome)

Capriccio of classical ruins with the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, Trajan's Column and other Roman monuments

Closed6 July 2011

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Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome)
Capriccio of classical ruins with the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, Trajan's Column and other Roman monuments
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 53 3/8 in. (100 x 135.6 cm.), including additions of approx. 4 in. to the left edge

Anonymous sale (The Property of a Gentleman); Christie's, London, 26 October 1973, lot 71, as 'G.P. Pannini' (£2,730).
Anonymous sale (The Property of a Gentleman); Christie's, London, 9 December 1988, lot 35, as 'Giovanni Paolo Pannini and Studio' (£35,000), where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

This capriccio is closely related to the Predica di un Apostolo, in the D'Arrigo collection in Nice; other versions of this painting can be found in the Denver Art Museum (cat. 432). This composition also shares similarities with the Rovine di costruzione corinzia, Arco di Giano quadrifronte, il vaso Borghese, Colonna Onoraria con saldati e sfaccendati, where the statue of a weeping ephebos, in the right of this painting, is replaced by the Borghese vase (F.Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e I fasti della Roma del 700, Rome, 1986, p. 444, fig. 430 and 431).