Stage Design: A Piazza with a Domed Church and an Obelisk
1783
Artist, Italian, 1752 - 1817
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 20.4 x 22.9 cm (8 1/16 x 9 in.)
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Accession
1991.150.29
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (Lugt 2078a); Seiferheld and Co., New York; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, October 1971; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1973
Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-75.
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, 21.
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.
Inscriptions
lower left in pen and brown ink: Gran piazza Romana. Geneve 1783 Giusepino; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 12
Wikidata ID
Q64572509