Stage Design
c. 1755
Artist, Bolognese, 1730 - 1766

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1984.87.2
Artwork history & notes
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
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.).
Inscriptions
upper right verso in graphite: Grun MK. 16 x 22; lower right verso in graphite on mount: 3443-Seiferheld
Wikidata ID
Q64609121