About the Artwork
Classical Landscape with a Distant City
1770
Luigi Gasparini
1779-1814
Italian
Unknown
Pen and black ink and gray wash on buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 15 5/16 × 12 3/4 inches (38.9 × 32.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR123.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, along upper edge: eseguito per il sig Michele Baratti da me Luigi Gasparini l'anno 1770 [indecipherable, under hinge] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: 24c-
Watermark: fleur-de-lis (similar to Heawood 1841) Stamp, in purple, verso, lower center: Peoli (Lugt 2020)
Provenance
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 281. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 304, no. A54.
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Luigi Gasparini, Classical Landscape with a Distant City, 1770, pen and black ink and gray wash on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR123.2.
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