Carlo Ferrario
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Carlo Ferrario
1833-1907
Set Design with Buildings and a Bridge for Gounod's Romeo e Giulietta (first performance in Milan 14 December 1867)
Pen and brown ink and wash, blue wash, with white, over graphite, on paper; perspective lines in graphite.
8 11/16 x 11 13/16 inches (220 x 300 mm)
Gift of Frederick Fox.
1989.44:2
Notes:
Watermark: none visible through lining.
One of three Set Designs, originally part of an album, now dismembered.
The support for each leaf has Ferrario's name and the name of the opera printed in gold.
The Donald Oenslager Collection of theatre drawings at the Library contains an additional twenty-eight drawings by Ferrario that were originally a part of this album (Acc. Nos. 1982.75:215, 1-28). Two other designs for Romeo e Giulietta by Ferrario are in the Oenslager collection (Acc. No. 1982.75:215, 7 and 8).
Provenance:
Art market, New York; Frederick Fox, Englewood, NJ.
Associated names:
Fox, Frederick, former owner.
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