DrawingsItalian16th century

Landscape with Ruins

16th century

Artists

Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the ElderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 20.6 x 30 cm (8 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (L. 2951 (as Pierre Crozat), sold [through his sale, P. Remy, Paris, January 18-28, 1770, no. 177]. Unidentified collector. Private collector, New York, sold [through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London and New York]; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1994, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.

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