Giovanni Paolo PANINI (Piacenza 1691 - Rome 1765) Animated architectural caprice Pen and gray ink, gray wash, blue watercolor over black pencil lines. Inscribed lower right: "Panini". (Horizontal central fold, lined on a japanese paper, spotting and restorations). 49.8 x 40.2 cm Our drawing can be compared with two other architectural caprices in the Morgan Library, New York, from the Mariette collection (see : Pierre Rosenberg, Les Dessins de la collection Mariette, Écoles italienne et espagnole, Paris, Somogy éditions d'Art, 2019, T.II, p.790, I1352 and I1353, reproduced).