05.02.2019-06.15.2019
SPLENDOURS OF THE GRAND TOUR
Watercolours, gouaches, prints, drawings 18-19th centuries
Galerie Grand-Rue invites you to discover the Splendours of the Grand Tour. Join us as we follow in the footsteps of young English and European noblemen of the 17th and 18th centuries, whose itinerary took in all the lyrical landscapes, majestic palaces,picturesque ruins that Rome, Naples and the Italian peninsula provided. Artists such as François Keiserman (1765-1833), A.L.R. Ducros (1748-1810), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Salomon Corrodi (1810-1892) and artists from the early 19th century Neapolitan school will be exhibited.
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Mozano di Mestre 1720 – 1778 Rome )
Grotteschi – The Skeletons
39,2 x 54,7 cm
Série de quatre eaux-fortes et burin sur papier vergé
Deuxième édition, circa 1750-1760