Ruins of a Basilica or Mausoleum

1691–1765

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions: 12 3/16 x 8 1/8in. (31 x 20.6cm)
Collection no.: 87.12.50
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Paolo Panini. Ruins of a Basilica or Mausoleum. Giovanni Paolo Panini; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Ruins of a Basilica or Mausoleum — Giovanni Paolo Panini. 1691–1765.

Medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown and gray wash. Dimensions: 12 3/16 x 8 1/8in. (31 x 20.6cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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