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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

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper, executed using a ruler, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 34.6 cm
Width: 23.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.104

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

Professor Anthony Blunt (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, monogram: "CB" (not on Lugt - notes in file wonder if could be an old attempt at attribution to Giuseppe Bibiena). Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "Bibbiena / 1657-1745 Ferdinando Galli di / 1656-1729 Francesco do di / 1696-1756 Giuseppe do di //".

Collector's mark: none.

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