Stage Design of Garden Pavilions, c. 1711

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with two shades of brown wash over graphite on cream laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27.7 x 25.4 cm (10 7/8 x 10 in.)
image: 25.3 x 25.4 cm (9 15/16 x 10 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Vincent and Linda Buonanno

Accession Number

2007.111.53

Artists / Makers

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (artist) Bolognese, 1657 - 1743

Image Use

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Inscription

within the drawing, throughout elements of the pavilion at right, brown ink, measurements; lower left margin, graphite: Bibiena Ferdinando; lower center, brown ink: Choischi p[er] Giardino; lower right, brown ink: 255/252 and 8fc; verso, lower center, graphite: Bibiena no 208, and in another hand: 11 [encircled]

Provenance

Francesco Dubini, Milan (Lugt 987a). (sale, Sotheby's London, 7 December 1976, no. 55); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dubini, Francesco
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 36.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 36.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 44.

Bibliography

1978: Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst, Memmingen 10 (1978): 8.