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).
Specifications
| 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 |
Etching
> Manual
> Intaglio printing techniques
> Printing technique
> Technique
> Material and 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
|
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
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