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

A capriccio of classical ruins with the Pyramid of Cestius beyond

Fermé26 October 2016

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Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome)
A capriccio of classical ruins with the Pyramid of Cestius beyond
oil on canvas
38 ¾ x 29 ¾ in. (98.4 x 75.5 cm.)

Private collection, Chicago.
Amelia Parker, Minnesota, c. 1930, and by descent to
Kenneth Parker, 1966, and by descent to the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

We are grateful to Professor David Marshall for confirming the attribution to Giovanni Paolo Panini on the basis of photographs. Professor Marshall has suggested a dating of around 1716-1718, based on the angular handling of the relief and the striking similarity of the present composition to the Architectural capriccio with the Pyramid of Cestius in the Galleria Manzoni, Milan, which probably dates to around 1718-1720 (see F. Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del '700, Rome, 1986, p. 283, no. 121). It can also be compared to The sermon of the apostle in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (see op. cit., p. 287, no. 130).