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Colonnade Built by Palladio (In Celebration of the Visit of Henry III of France to Venice, 1574)
Colonnade Built by Palladio (In Celebration of the Visit of Henry III of France to Venice, 1574)

Colonnade Built by Palladio (In Celebration of the Visit of Henry III of France to Venice, 1574)

Artist Antonio Visentini (Italian, 1688 - 1782)
Date18th century
MediumPen, brown ink, and gray wash over black chalk
DimensionsOverall: 11 15/16 × 20 5/16 inches (30.32 × 51.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy
Object number55-87
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Collections
Exhibition History

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

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 52, as Colonnade Built by Palladio.

Baroque Prints and Drawings, Cowles Library, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, March 30-April 8, 1967, no. 8 or no. 9.

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. 589D, March 6, 1954-September 21, 1955, [3];

Purchased from Durlacher Brothers by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, September 21, 1955;

His 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.

 “Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 32, as Colonnade Built by Palladio.

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