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Palatial Courtyard with a Fountain, c. 1750. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper.
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper · 25.7 × 38.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Palatial Courtyard with a Fountain
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- c. 1750
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.7 × 38.9 cm (10 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1720–1778
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.