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The Palace of the French Academy (Plate 40 of the Views of Rome)


The Palazzo Salviati
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1752

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.2 x 82.2 cm (21 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.9 x 62.3 cm (16 1/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25516
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 024, iii/v; Focillon 739; Robison 24(D)(of F); Ficacci 915
State iii
Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceAlfred Greenough, Boston (c. 1843-1884); by bequest to his uncle, Charles Henry Parker (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA January 1, 1913 (transferred from library)