May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FRANCESCO PIRANESI (AFTER LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ)
Fuoco artificiale detto la Girandola.

Etching, circa 1790. 755x510 mm; 29 3/4x20 1/4 inches, small margins. A very good, well-inked impression.

This dramatic view, etched by Francesco Piranesi (1758/59-1810), the son of the famous Italian artist and architect Giovanni B. Piranesi, shows a fireworks display above the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome. Wollin 3.