The "Sotto Piombi," Where Death Sentences Were Read

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: 23.9 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.2 × 35.4 cm (11 1/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.137.7

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.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left:Gallimberti del.; in plate, below image, at right: de Pian scl.; in plate, below image, at right: Camerato detto sotto piombi, dove par ordine degli ex Inquisitori di Stato, il Capitan Grande si portava colà a legere la Sentenza di morte / No. 7 piedi 3 Veneti; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582; by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink: 7; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian (De) Gio; c34

Watermarks

check--AO with fleur de lys?

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