Architectural capriccio with Figures and Antiquities –65 Giovanni Paolo Panini Giovanni Paolo Panini was a painter and draftsman who specialized in architectural scenes of Rome, both topographical and invented. He was hired by the Académie de France in Rome to instruct the young French art students in perspective. He worked closely with Charles Joseph Natoire, the director of the Académie. The proposed purchase is a rare example of a work executed in two hands, with architecture by Panini with figures and accents by Natoire. Natoire’s estate sale lists several drawings described as ‘by

Architectural capriccio with Figures and Antiquities –65 Giovanni Paolo Panini Giovanni Paolo Panini was a painter and draftsman who specialized in architectural scenes of Rome, both topographical and invented. He was hired by the Académie de France in Rome to instruct the young French art students in perspective. He worked closely with Charles Joseph Natoire, the director of the Académie. The proposed purchase is a rare example of a work executed in two hands, with architecture by Panini with figures and accents by Natoire. Natoire’s estate sale lists several drawings described as ‘by Panini with figures by Natoire,’ and this sheet may well have figured among them. Collaborations between artists flourished in the milieu of the French Academy in the 1760s and Architectural capriccio with Figures and Antiquities. Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, Piacenza 1691–1765 Rome). –65. Black chalk, pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of watercolor and white gouache. Drawings

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