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Bibiena Family, early 18th Century
Lot 149

Bibiena Family, early 18th Century

A ceremonial carriage: Design for the theatre

Fermé22 May 2008

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Bibiena Family, early 18th Century
A ceremonial carriage: Design for the theatre
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, with perspectival indications
9 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (23.7 x 24.3 cm.)

With Joanna Booth.
L. Houthakker, his mark (not in Lugt).
With Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, 1991, no. 3.

Note du spécialiste

This elaborate carriage or wheelchair was probably intended to be used on the stage. A drawing from the Anthony Blunt Collection (Courtauld Institute, London, Blunt 95), also attributed to the Bibiena family, shows the design for a coulisse with an almost identical wheel chair seen from behind. As part of a stage set both chairs would have been painted entirely in trompe l'oeil.