Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Architectural Capriccio

Jean-Henri-Alexandre Pernet
ca. 1763-ca. 1791

Architectural Capriccio

15 7/8 x 23 1/2 inches (425 x 596 mm)
Pen and black ink, gray and brown wash and watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
1989.38

Purchased on the Lois and Walter C. Baker Fund.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in gray ink at lower center, "Pernet".
Associated names
Cassady-Smith, John, former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 115, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department