The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 7, 2023

Sacrificial Offering in a Temple

after 1750

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

(Italian, 1720–1778)

Italy, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper, laid down on cream(3) wove? paper

Sheet: 14.3 x 9.1 cm (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 15.3 x 10.4 cm (6 x 4 1/8 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1953.259

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

falsley signed, lower right, in brown ink: Piranesi ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in brown ink: Piranese ; upper left, in graphite: 9421 [underlined]

Provenance
[Erardo Aeschlimann, Milan]
Exhibition history

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, Venice As City and Theater (Feb. 27-Apr. 21, 1985).

CMA, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands (Jan. 14-Mar. 24, 1965).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).

CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).

[did not find a registrarial file for this one, Mar. 1996]-?

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1986-March 1, 1987).

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