Stage Design, c. 1755

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite

Dimensions

Overall: 13.9 x 18 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
support: 21.2 x 25.7 cm (8 3/8 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William B. O'Neal

Accession Number

1984.87.2

Artists / Makers

Mauro Antonio Tesi (artist) Bolognese, 1730 - 1766

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right verso in graphite: Grun MK. 16 x 22; lower right verso in graphite on mount: 3443-Seiferheld

Provenance

P. Claas, London; S.I. Kaufman (inv. 55); Seiferheld and Co., New York; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, January 1972; gift 1984 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

O'Neal, William B., Professor

Exhibition History

1969: Fantastic and Ornamental Drawings: A Selection from the Kaufmann Collection. Exh. cat. Portsmouth College of Art, Portsmouth, England, 1969, 58.

1973: Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-1975.

1993: Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington 1993, 16.

1996: Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.

Bibliography

1975: "Drawings for Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Noted Virginia Collection of Master Drawings," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2, 8 (illus.).