Master Paintings and Drawings
Master Paintings and Drawings
Property from a New York Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini
An architectural capriccio with a preaching apostle and figures before ruins, including the pyramid of Gaius Cestius, Trajan's column and the arch of Janus
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March 23, 03:51 PM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Property from a New York Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini
An architectural capriccio with a preaching apostle and figures before ruins, including the pyramid of Gaius Cestius, Trajan's column and the arch of Janus
oil on canvas
canvas: 42 ⅜ by 39 ¾ in.; 107.6 by 101 cm.
framed: 48 ⅞ by 47 ¾ in.; 124.1 by 121.3 cm.
This composition was explored on a few occasions by Giovanni Paolo Panini most often in a horizontal format.1 Members of his workshop and close circle, though, are thought to have created vertical versions of the scene, as visible in the present example.
1. See F. Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del '700, Rome 1986, pp. 444-445, cat nos. 430-432.