Roman Wall Frescoes of the Villa Negroni, Rome: Mars, Venus and Cupid (after Anton Raphael Mengs)
Girolamo Carattoni (1757 - 1809)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1980 - 1999
Materials
Cardboard
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849579.2
Summary
Print, Engraving, Roman Wall Frescoes of the Villa Negroni, Rome: Mars, Venus and Cupid (after Anton Raphael Mengs) by Girolamo Carattoni (1749-c.1809). Reproduction of a design for the Pompeian Room, by Hengs. One of three on display. "Mars, Venus and Cupid", wall design from the Villa Negroni, Room E. Engraved by Carattoni, and published by Camillo Buti, 1793.The Villa Negroni was a Roman villa, found in the extensive grounds of the former Villa Montalto-Peretti, near the Baths of the Diocletian and excavated in 1777; its rooms contained well-preserved frescoes which were removed by the English dealer Henry Tresham and are now lost.
Provenance
Reproduction of a design for the Pompeian Room, by Hengs. Engraved by Carattoni, and published by Camillo Buti, 1793.
Makers and roles
Girolamo Carattoni (1757 - 1809) , engraver (printmaker) Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728 – Rome 1779), original artist