While the best-known Bibiena sets evoke the courtyards of majestic Baroque palaces, the artists also followed contemporary architectural trends. This design, for example, suggests a grand Parisian hôtel interior, with a unified arrangement of chairs, side tables, and pier mirrors in a room decorated with paintings of gods and goddesses. The sheet may have been executed when Carlo Bibiena was assisting his father in Bayreuth.
Carlo Galli Bibiena (1721–1787)
Palace Interior with Tritons and Mirrored Gallery, a Design for the Stage, ca. 1745–50
Pen and brown ink and gray wash, over black chalk
Gift of Jules Fisher; inv. no. 2021.38