Trompe-l'Oeil Exercise: Prints on a Table Top

Signature: Signed and dated in pen and brown ink at lower left, "Pietro Giacomo Palmieri Inventò, e fece a Penna 1766."

Inscription: Various inscriptions by Palmieri identifying prints represented.
Written on verso of heavy mount (in graphite) PIETRO GIACOMO PALMIERI / Trompe l'oeil: a drawing & prints / Pen and ink and brown wash, 420 X 569 mm. / Signed and dated 1766. / Collection: Sir Bruce Ingram: (Lugt 1405A) / Carl Winter (with his collector's mark).

Marking: Collector's mark of Sir Bruce S. Ingram, London stamped in gray at lower right on verso of heavy mount (see Lugt, Suppl. 1405a).
Collector's mark of Carl Winter, Esq., London written at lower right corner, in pen and black ink (not listed in Lugt).

Sir Bruce S. Ingram (British); Carl Winter (British); Sotheby's, LondonJuly 1, 1965, no. 81; 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. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," April 17–August 20, 1995.

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. 294, p. 114, ill.

Jacob Bean Drawings Recently Acquired, 1969-1971. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (January 18 - April 16). New York, 1972, cat. no. 34.

Franca Dalmasso "Trompe-l'oeil di Pietro Palmieri e la Cultura Figurativa in PIemonte a Fine '700." Commentari. vol. 23, 1972, fig. no. 1, pp. 131-132, ill.

Andreina Griseri I Grandi Disegni Italiani nella Biblioteca Reale di Torino. Milan, 1978, Under no. 79.

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. 149, fig. no. 149, p. 158, ill.

David Klemm Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle Kupferstichkabinett, vol. 2, Italienische Zeichnungen, 1450-1800. Köln, Weimar, Vienna, 2009, cat. no. under cat. 192.

Stefaan Hautekeete Disegno & Colore. Dessins italiens et français de XVIe au XVIIIe siècle Musée Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Cinisello Balsamo-Milan, 2012, fig. no. 2, pp. 169, 172, ill.