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The Smoking Fire

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen owns almost the complete graphic oeuvre of the three great 18th-century Venetian masters, Piranesi, Canaletto and Tiepolo, thanks to J.C.J. Bierens de Haan (1867-1951), who bequeathed his collection of 26,000 prints to the museum together with a large sum of money to establish a fund for the acquisition of graphic art (Stichting Lucas van Leyden). Piranesi is best known for two sets of etchings, the ‘Carceri’ (prisons) and the ‘Vedute di Roma’ (views of Rome).

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Title The Smoking Fire
Material and technique Etching and engraving
Object type
Print > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 531 mm
Width 390 mm
Artists Publisher: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Accession number L 1952/33 (PK)
Credits Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1952
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1952
Creation date in 1761
Signature lower left: Piranesi F.
Watermark none (vV, 24P)
Inscriptions upper right: VI
Provenance ; - ; art dealers Paul Prouté S.A., Paris; Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1952
Exhibitions Rotterdam 1953; Amsterdam 1997; Maastricht 1998; Rotterdam 1998; Sint-Niklaas 1999; Rotterdam 2006; Rotterdam 2009-2010 (coll 2 kw 5-6); Rotterdam 2015; Rotterdam 2019; Rotterdam 2022
Internal exhibitions De Collectie Twee - wissel V, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
De Collectie Twee - wissel VI, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010)
Piranesi . Canaletto . Tiepolo: prenten uit de collectie Bierens de Haan, een keuze van oud-directeur J.C. Ebbinge Wubben (2006)
Piranesi (2022)
External exhibitions Boijmans bij de Buren - De duizelingwekkende verbeelding van Piranesi (2019)
Research Show research Piranesi on Paper
Literature Focillon 1918, no. 29; Hind 1922, no. 6; Rotterdam 1953, nos. 15-30; Robison 1986, no. 32; Wilton-Ely 1994, no. 31; Amsterdam 1997, no. VI, ill.; Maastricht 1998, pl. 7; Rotterdam 2015, no. 33
Material
Object
Technique
Engraving > Engraved > Manual > Intaglio printing techniques > Printing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Engraving > Engraved > Manual > Intaglio printing techniques > Printing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Etching > Manual > Intaglio printing techniques > Printing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venetië 1720 - Rome 1778

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