Lot Essay
A similar view of the Piazza Colonna, taken from a slightly different angle, appears as one of the pictures hanging on the right of the painting of Modern Rome, dated 1759, which is an assemblage of views of contemporary Roman buildings, F. Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini, e i fasti della Roma del'700, Rome, 1986, no. 500, illustrated. It was painted as a pendant to Ancient Rome for the duc de Choiseul. Both pictures are now in the Louvre.
Other similar capricci of ancient and modern Rome, in the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, show the Piazza Colonna from a different view point.
There were three drawings by Panini in the Esdaile sale including this one.
Other similar capricci of ancient and modern Rome, in the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, show the Piazza Colonna from a different view point.
There were three drawings by Panini in the Esdaile sale including this one.