© The National Gallery, London
The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio, Rome
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765)
Location: National Gallery
Date: 1747
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 105 x 165cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £150,000 (Total: £1,840,687; tax remission)
Vendor: The N R Colville Will Trust
Review number: 5757 (2006)
Provenance:
Painted for Cardinal Domenico Orsini (1719-1789), Rome; Count Peter Andreivich Shouvaloff / Shuvalov (1827-1889), St Petersburg; Sophie, wife of Count Alexander Benckendorff (1848-1917); Count Constantin Benckendorff (1880-1959); Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd, London (1934); Colonel Norman Colville, London (1937); the N R Colville Will Trust.
Description:
View of crowds assembled to witness the drawing of lottery numbers on the balcony of the Palazzo di Montecitorio in Rome. The winning numbers flutter down to the eager people below. Lotteries originated in Venice as private games but were so popular and lucrative that they were taken over by city authorities. Panini was the most famous and successful townscape painter in 18th-century Rome.
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