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Architectural capriccio - stage design

Maker

Circle of
(artist)
1600-1799

Title

Architectural capriccio - stage design

Date of Production

1600 - 1799

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown, blue and grey wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic support, executed using a ruler

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 15 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.102

Mode of Acquisition

Anthony Blunt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

unidentified collector, L.609; E.R. Lamponi-Leopardi, Florence and Turin (second half of 19th century), L.1760; Professor Anthony Blunt (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support.

Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: upper right corner, red crayon: "416"; centre, graphite: "Bibiena"; lower centre, graphite, circled: "374"; lower right edge, graphite, obscured by remnant of tape: "Babbagnalli" [?]. Mount (removed, recorded in file), Verso: blue ink, circled: “J A / 58 //”.

Label: Remounted March 2007/AtB 58 (initialed in black in), Blunt 102/Bibiena (circle)/Coll. ? R. Lamponi on verso: "OP [encircled]"

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in blue ink: unidentified collector (L.609); lower left edge, stamped in blue ink: E.R. Lamponi-Leopardi (L.1760).

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