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Gondolier

Figure sketch
Lost Art-ID
626304
Artist / Creator
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Birth
1720.10.04, Mogliano
Death
1778.11.09, Rom
Place of activity
Rom; Neapel; Venedig; Tivoli; Herculaneum; Pompeji
Title
Gondolier
Additional title
Figure sketch
Dating
1778 (before)
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Paper / drawn (pen-and-ink drawing) brown
Height
14.60 cm
Width
9.00 cm
Inventory number
1942:3 Z
Description
printed, cut-out sheet on verso; recto without further findings; printed writing on verso: ‘ [...] amitenza di cosi celebre Autore. [...]'; next to the word “Autore” a round outline, possibly of a former stamp or sticker with blue writing, remnants of this ( Dm 15.371 mm); above, slightly offset to the right, another round imprint or former sticker, Dm 14.898 mm; at the top centre in pencil: ’4. ...[behind it another number possibly ‘3’ or ‘6’ or ‘8’,] the number ‘4...’ underlined in pencil; above it possibly a former sticker or similar, removed and paper damaged ( Dm 14.228 mm); lower left stamp SGSM 18/ Lugt 1094c, therein in lead inventory number ‘1940’ and ‘3’; below another round outline of a former sticker or stamp, with traces of red colour, possibly remains of glue, Dm 15.645 mm; in all four corners brown residues of an older mounting; lower right traces of a pencil inscription, no longer legible. [Note on the former round stamps and/or stickers: All four have apparently been removed. See also reverse photo].
Provenance

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Venice/Rome

no later than 1778 - 31 Jan. 1941 Whereabouts unknown

undated - probably after 31 Jan. 1941 Art dealer Claude Aubry, Paris, sold to the Mühlmann office

probably after 31 Jan. 1941 - 20 May 1941 Mühlmann office, acquired from the Aubry art dealership, 68, rue Madame, Paris, for fl. 18.79, consigned to the auction at Weinmüller, Munich

20.05.1941-1942 Dr Hermann Bünemann (1895-1976), acquired as a purchase in the Weinmüller auction

since 1942 Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, acquired as a gift from Dr Hermann Bünemann, Munich

An NS-related confiscation cannot be ruled out.

Literature / Source
Aukt.-Kat. Nr. 27.1941 / Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller, München: Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, illustrierte Bücher des 15. - 19. Jahrhunderts: 20. und 21. Mai 1941 München, Lot 715; Ein Bildhandbuch. A visual handbook. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 2002, Abb. 291; Aust.-Kat. Italienische Zeichnungen. 15. - 18. Jahrhundert, München, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, 1967, hg. von Annegrit Schmitt, Kat.-Nr. 59; Künstler zeichnen, Sammler stiften. 250 Jahre Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 2008, S. 173-174, Abb. S. 198; Aussst.-Kat. VENEDIG. La Serenissima. Zeichnung und Druckgraphik aus vier Jahrhunderten, bearb. von: Maria Aresin, Ilka Mestemacher und Kurt Zeitler; München, Pinakothek der Moderne, 2022, S. 303, Kat.-Nr. 64; Michael Matile: Venetian Drawings and Prints in Munich (Rezension zum Ausstellungskatalog "VENEDIG. La Serenissima. Zeichnung und Druckgraphik aus vier Jahrhunderten", hg. von Kurt Zeitler, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne, 3. Februar – 8. Mai 2023, Berlin und München 2022, in: Print Quarterly, 40, 2023, S. 180-183, hier S. 183.
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