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Ruins with the Farnese Hercules

Artist Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691-1765)
Place of OriginItaly
Dateabout 1716-1717
DimensionsPainting: 39 × 29 in. (99.1 × 73.7 cm)
Frame: 47 × 37 × 3 1/2 in. (119.4 × 94 × 8.9 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1964.31
Not on View
Published ReferencesArisi, F., Gian Paolo Pannini, Piacenza, 1961, nos. 17, 18, figs. 41, 42.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter 1964, (1964.31 only) repr. p. 101.

Frankfurter, A., "Museum Evaluations, 2: Toledo," Art News, LXIII, Jan. 1965, pp.24, 52-53, fig. 1.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly, vol. 29, nos. 3-4, 1966, p. 295.

Watson, F.J.B., "Eighteenth-Century Painting and Decorative Arts," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 465, repr. fig. 22, p. 463.

Burda, Hubert, Die Ruine in den Bildern Hubert Roberts, Munich, 1967, p. 115, no. 17, repr. p. 129, no. 17.

Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections, Cambridge (Mass.), 1972, pp. 157, 502, 641.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 120, 123, pl. 26.

Arisi, Ferdinando, Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1691-1765, Milan, Electa, 1993, pp. 19, 26 no. 36, repr.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, 1971 (Toledo only).
Architectural Fantasy with a Concert Party
Giovanni Paolo Panini
about 1716-1717
St. Peter’s Square, Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini
1741
Christ and the Centurion
Paolo Veronese
about 1575-1580
View of the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
late 1730s
Sophonisba Receiving the Cup of Poison
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
about 1708-1713
Head of an Old Man
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
about 1757-1775
Lot and His Daughters
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
1651-1652
Ariccia, The Porta Napoletana with the Palazzo Chigi
Giovanni Battista Camuccini
about 1840
Landscape with Ruins
Bartholomeus Breenbergh
about 1630

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