About the Artwork
A Fantastic View of an Imperial City
ca. between 1740 and 1760
Giuseppe Valeriani
1690-1761
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and ink wash on off-white laid paper
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (15.9 × 23.5 cm) Framed: 15 × 18 × 7/8 inches (38.1 × 45.7 × 2.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
65.3
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Stamp, in black, lower right: EF (Edmund Fatio)
Provenance
Member of the Russian imperial family (Russia). Maximilien-Eugène-Auguste-Joseph Napoléon de Beauharnais, duc de Leuchtenberg. 1912, de Leuchtenberg family. Edmond Fatio (Geneva, Switzerland)
June 3-4, 1959, Fatio sale (Geneva, Switzerland) no. 241
Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York)
1965-present, purchase by 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. 135, no. 66.
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attributed to Giuseppe Valeriani, A Fantastic View of an Imperial City, ca. between 1740 and 1760, pen and brown ink and ink wash on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 65.3.
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