GIOVANNI PAOLO PANINI
25 Three Figure Studies
Gray wash and black chalk; H: 29.4 cm (n^9 /i6 in.); W:
38.4 cm (i5I/gin.)
84.GA.55
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: At bottom right, inscribed
Hogarth in black chalk.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Geneva.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.THIS STUDY OF THREE MEN IN VARIED POSES APPEARS
to have been made to provide figure types for the elab-
orately populated views of Rome for which Panini is best
known. The figures were drawn in very quickly with
thin black chalk lines, and then gray wash, in a range of
strengths, was added. This technique, as well as the
graphic style of the drawing, are analogous to those in a
sheet showing a young gentleman holding a hat (New
York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 1975.131.42)/i. J. Bean and F. Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections:
The Eighteenth Century in Italy, exh. cat., Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1971,
no. 56.70 ITALIAN SCHOOL • PANINI