Follower of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
1657-1743
Monumental Entrance to a Palace
5 15/16 x 4 1/8 inches (150 x 105 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over graphite, on paper.
1982.75:109:2
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
Notes
The three drawings inv. 1982.75:109.1-3 were all part of a single album long ago divided, of which other pages are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt, the Princeton Art Museum, and elsewhere. Although some sheets of this album have been attributed to Giovanni Battista Natali by Mary Myers and Elaine Evans Dee, the traditional attribution of the drawings to the Bibiena family or their immediate circle, otherwise supported by Peter Fuhring and Diane Kelder, seems preferable. Donald Oenslager (Oenslager 1985, 60-61) compared the drawings to those in the albums formerly at the Accademia di San Luca, Rome, attributed to Ferdinando Bibiena.
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Fatio, Paul, former owner.
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
Bibliography
Nicolas Rauch S.A. Dessins anciens : architecture, decoration, theatre, particulierment de l'epoque baroque : collection Edmond Fation. Vente aux encheres a Genève. Genève : N. Rauch, 1959, no. 19.
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