Fedele Fischetti

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Fedele Fischetti
1734-1789
Design for a Ceiling: The Age of Gold
Pen and black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; rose-colored wash over inscription at lower left.
13 11/16 x 18 3/16 inches (347 x 460 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1981.4
Notes: 

Preparatory design for a ceiling fresco in one of the small rooms in the Queen's apartments in the royal palace at Caserta.

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Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Volta dipinta nella stanza di Conversazione del Real Palazzo di Caserta: F. F. Inv.".

Provenance: 
Hellmuth Wallach, New York; János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Wallach, Hellmuth, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

The Golden Age of Naples, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, and Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1981, II, no. 82b, repr. (includes previous bibliography of exhibitions)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 257.

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