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GIUSEPPE GALLI BIBIENA (Parma 1696-1757 Berlin)
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GIUSEPPE GALLI BIBIENA (Parma 1696-1757 Berlin)

A set design of a palace courtyard with a harbor in the background

Closed28 January 2022

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GIUSEPPE GALLI BIBIENA (Parma 1696-1757 Berlin)
A set design of a palace courtyard with a harbor in the background
black chalk, black and brown ink, gray wash, watermark ‘IV’ (countermark)
12 3⁄8 x 18 1⁄2 in. (31 x 47 cm)

with Didier Aaron, Paris, 1975.
Lodewijk Arnold Houthakker (1926-2008), Amsterdam (L. 3893).
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (Drawings by the Bibiena Family and their Followers, 1991, no. 7, ill.).
with Tunkl Fine Art, Zurich.

Specialist note

This drawing features the motif of the four-columned pillar set upon a pedestal which was a signature element in many of the architectural designs for courtyards produced by draftsmen of the Bibiena family. In a notebook from the Bibiena workshop now in the Kunstbibliothek, Vienna, there is a preparatory sketch depicting the same view as the central portion of the present drawing (F. Hadamowsky, Die Familie Galli-Bibiena in Wien. Leben und Werk für das Theater, Vienna, 1962, pl. 36).

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