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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Stage Set: Grand Palace Hall with Columns and Grand Staircase

Follower of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
1657-1743

Stage Set: Grand Palace Hall with Columns and Grand Staircase

ca. 1719
14 9/16 x 20 7/8 inches (370 x 530 mm)
Pen and brown ink and gray wash, over graphite, on paper.
2023.108

Gift of Jules Fisher.

Notes
Extraordinary in its range of detail and subtle wash shading, this drawing was probably executed by one of Ferdinando Bibiena's pupils at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna. A quintessential example of the scena per angolo (scene viewed at an angle), the drawing retains prick marks and inscribed lines that show the careful development of its multiviewpoint perspective.
Inscriptions/Markings
Lower right corner: "Ferdinando / Bibiena / 1719 (?)".
Associated names
Fisher, Jules, former owner.
Bibliography
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, "Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection", 2021. Exh. cat., no. 5, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department