Sachettorum Villae rudera imitabatur 1778
Jean-François Janinet
* 1752 in Paris † 1814 in Paris
Etching and wash-manner in colour after Hubert Robert (1733-1808).
Size of sheet: 38.3 x 46.8 cm.
Trace of an old paraph in brown ink on the verso.
Literature: IFF 12: 173; Portalis and Beraldi 2: 86; Colorful Impressions The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteen-Century France, Exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Wahington, 2003-2004, p. 92, no. 40.
Very fine impression, with fresh colours. The model of this print, dated 1760, is a watercolour now in the Albertina, Vienna (Inv. 12432). The villa Sacchetti was built after the designs by Pietro da Cortona between 1625 and 1630.
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Slightly rubbed along the lower edge