Fedele Fischetti
1734-1789
Design for a Ceiling: The Age of Gold
13 11/16 x 18 3/16 inches (347 x 460 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; rose-colored wash over inscription at lower left.
1981.4
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Preparatory design for a ceiling fresco in one of the small rooms in the Queen's apartments in the royal palace at Caserta.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Volta dipinta nella stanza di Conversazione del Real Palazzo di Caserta: F. F. Inv.".
Associated names
Wallach, Hellmuth, former owner.
Scholz, János, 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.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 257.
Classification
Century Drawings
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