The Canal dei Marani, Where State Inquisitors Had Them Drowned

1797

Giovanni De Pian

Artist, Italian, 1764 - 1800

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.6 × 30.3 cm (9 5/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.1 × 35 cm (11 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.137.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 235, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left: Galliberti inv.; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian inc.; in plate, below image, at center: Canale dei Maranni, dove per li fu Inquisitori di Stato si facevano annegare li rei / No. 5; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582;by later hand, upper left verso in pen and black ink: 5 [in circle]; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian De Gio; C34

Watermarks

crowned letters

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