Side Elevation of Triumphal Arch Built by Palladio (In Celebration of the Visit of Henry III of France to Venice, 1574)

Artist Antonio Visentini (Italian, 1688 - 1782)

Date18th century

MediumSepia pen and wash on white paper

DimensionsOverall: 16 7/16 × 11 15/16 inches (41.71 × 30.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of R. Kirk Askew Jr.

Object number55-86

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

University of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, VA, February 1955.

Provenance

Contessa Rosa Piatti-Lochis (1856-1915), London and Crocetta, by 1915 [1];

Ferruccio Asta (1900-1952), Venice, by 1937 [2];

Purchased from Allan Yates Richards (1907-1960), Dallas, TX, by Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. 588D, March 6, 1954-September 21, 1955 [3];

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 2026c

[2] Asta was a Venetian dealer who purchased the Contessa Rosa Piatti-Lochis collection around 1935-37. It is unclear whether he purchased this work in his capacity as a dealer or as a collector. Lugt 116a.

[3] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (New York: Alec Tiranti, 1952), 79n1.

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