Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite
Dimensions:16 1/4 x 22 1/16 in. (41.3 x 56 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1969
Accession Number:69.14.1
Signature: Signed and dated in pen and brown ink at lower center, "Pietro Giacomo Palmieri Disegnò a Penna L'anno 1766."
Inscription: Written on verso of heavy mount in pencil, PIETRO GIACOMO PALMIERI. / Trompe l'oeil: a drawing and prints / Pen, ink and brown wash. 410-560 mm. / Signed and dated 1766. / Collection: Sir Brunce Ingram (Lugt 1450A) / Carl Winter Esq (with his collector's mark). Various inscriptions by Palmieri identifying prints represented. Annotated at lower right (in pen and brown ink) possibly unidentified collector's mark (?).
Marking: Stamp, Sir Bruce S. Ingram, London, stamped in gray at lower right on verso of heavy mount (Lugt Supp. 1405a). Stamp, Carl Winter, Esq. written in pen and black ink at lower right corner.
Sir Bruce S. Ingram (British); Carl Winter (British)(his mark, CWR, at lower right, not in Lugt); Sotheby's, LondonJuly 1, 1965, no. 82; Lodewijk Arnold Houthakker (Dutch); William H. Schab
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings Recently Acquired, 1969–1971," January 18–April 16, 1972.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Rembrandt," April 30–July 28, 2019.
Carl Winter Esq. Collection Sale. [Sale Catalogue]. Sotheby's, London, London, July 1, 1965, p. 34.
Jacob Bean "Ninety-ninth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1968-1969, Reports of the Departments: Drawings." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.s. vol. 28, no. 2, New York, October 1969, p. 67.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III: Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1971, cat. no. 293, pp. 113-114.
Jacob Bean Drawings Recently Acquired, 1969-1971. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (January 18 - April 16). New York, 1972, cat. no. 33, p. 13.
Franca Dalmasso "Trompe-l'oeil di Pietro Palmieri e la Cultura Figurativa in PIemonte a Fine '700." Commentari. vol. 23, 1972, fig. no. 2, p. 132, ill.
Andreina Griseri I Grandi Disegni Italiani nella Biblioteca Reale di Torino. Milan, 1978, Under no. 79.
Sir Denis Mahon, Nicholas Turner The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Cambridge, 1989, Under cat. 246., pp. 105-107.
Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 148, fig. no. 148, pp. 157-58, ill.
David Klemm Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle Kupferstichkabinett, vol. 2, Italienische Zeichnungen, 1450-1800. Köln, Weimar, Vienna, 2009, cat. no. under cat. 61.
Stefaan Hautekeete Disegno & Colore. Dessins italiens et français de XVIe au XVIIIe siècle Musée Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Cinisello Balsamo-Milan, 2012, pp. 169, 172.
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