THE ALMOST-FORGOTTEN CENTURY
(The 18th, In Case You Forgot)
(The 18th, In Case You Forgot)
- Canaletto, View of a Town on a River Bank
- Canaletto, Landscape with a Tower
- Manaigo, Saint John the Baptist in a Niche
- Faldoni, Abraham and Melchizedek
- Anesi, Veduta di Villa Madama
- Cignaroli, The Three Marys at the Cross
- Tiepolo, The Holy Family Passing a Statue
- att. to Panfili, Design for the Title Page
- Piranesi, Piazza del Popolo
- Piranesi, The Pantheon (Exterior)
- Piranesi, The Piazza Navona with S. Agnese on the Right
- Piranesi, The Isola Tiberina with S. Bartolomeo in the Foreground
- Novelli, Emblem Medalion for Gaetano Vitali
- Volpato, Il Boschetto d’Arcadia verso la Reggia
- Boucher, Tête de Bourgeois Coiffé
- Gautier-Dagoty, François Boucher
- Demarteau, Jeune Fille à la Cage
- Fragonard, Deux Femmes sur un Nuage
- Gillot, La Vie des Satyrs (Set of Four)
- Descourtis, Paul et Virginie (Set of Six)
- Moyreau, La Musette
- Van Loo, Pierrot et Scapin
- LePrince, Les Pêcheurs
- LePrince, 2me Suite de Divers Cris de Marchands de Russie
- Robert, Les Soirées de Rome: Title Page
- Delarue, A Pagan Sacrifice
- Loutherbourg, Resting Peasants with Animals in a Landscape
- Loutherbourg, 1ére Suite de Soldats (Set of Six)
- Loutherbourg, 2nde Suite des Figures (Set of Six)
- Janinet, Deux Vuës de la Grèce (pair)
- Moitte, La Catéchisme
- Mauclair, Quand l’Hymen Dort
- Moreau, Les Petits Parains
- Norblin de la Gourdaine, Le Grand Joueur
- Mallet, A Couple Under a Parasol
- Drevet, Jacques Benigne Bossuet
- Earlom, A Game Market
- Hogarth, A Chorus of Singers
- MacArdell, Lady Caroline Russell
- Cooper, Mountainous Landscape with a Herd on the Move
- Pether, King Uzziah Stricken with Leprosy
- Runciman, Perseus and Andromeda (Large Plate)
- Robertson, Cowherds and Cattle by a Stand of Trees
- Worlidge, Bust of a Man in a Feathered Turban
- MacArdell, Lords John and Bernard Stuart
- Romney, Preliminary Study for the Painting of the Gower Family
- Howitt, The Fox Hunt (Set of 4)
- Bretherton, Concerto Spirituale
- Smith, The Fern Gatherers
- Beich, The Conversion of St. Paul
- Chodowiecki, The Wedding of Friderike Sophie
- Kauffman, Das Mädchen bei der Urne
- von Bemmel, The Artist by the Waterfall
- Glume, Portrait of the Painter Joachim Martin Falbe
- att. to Füger, Christ Calling Simon
- Wachsmuth, German Alphabet with Fantastic Figures
- Wocher & Janinet, The Wrestlers on the Ramparts of Bern
- Schouman, The Great Crested Grebe
- Stolker, Der Junge Mann
- att. to Andriessen, Sawyers by a Shed
- Vieira de Mattos, Seated Woman Holding a Bird, with a Nude Child
- Goya, Bien Tirada Está (It’s Nicely Stretched)
- Goya, Allá Vá Eso (There It Goes)
- Goya, Que Pico de Oro ! (What A Beak of Gold!)
- Goya, El de la Rollona (Nanny’s Boy)
- Goya, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor (Self Portrait)
Piazza del Popolo
Etching, 1750, from Vedute di Roma, 406 x 545 mm., Hind 14 v/vii. Fine, clear impression from the first Paris edition on heavy laid paper with good margins; remains of old glue stains in the margins and verso. The Chiesa di Santa Maria di Monte Santo is at the left, Santa Maria de Miracoli at the right and the Egyptian obelisk in the center. The streets today are where they were, but now paved and filled with cars and buses and they seem considerably narrower and less grand than in Piranesi’s view. In fact, it takes a certain stretch of the imagination to stand today by the obelisk and see the scene through Piranesi’s eyes. Keep your photographs; his view was so much better.