The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Project for a Chapel in the Church of San Ciriaco, Ancona

Project for a Chapel in the Church of San Ciriaco, Ancona

Date:: 1700–1773
Medium:: Pen and dark brown ink, over freehand graphite and ruled construction lines in graphite
Dimensions:: 17 x 11-5/16 in. (43.2 x 28.7 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number:: 68.725.1

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed on recto at lower right in pen and brown ink script, "Cappella delle Reliquie/di S. Ciriaco d'Ancona". Scale inscribed in pen and brown ink along lower border, "[numbering: 5 10 20 30]". Annotated in graphite on verso, "A.16.87; 68.725.1".

Marking: Watermark is fleur-de-lys in double circle surmounted by a "V", near Heawood 1591.
Provenance

Galerie Bassenge (Berlin)sale Berlin, April 25, 1967, lot 643; Richard Hodgkin(as Juvarra)
References

Mary L. Myers Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, The Bibiena Family & Other Italian Draughtsmen. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, cat. no. 60, fig. no. 60, p. 43-44, ill.
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