Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Venice 1762-1844 Milan)
Lot 102

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Venice 1762-1844 Milan)

An architectural capriccio with arches and bridges (recto and verso)

Closed8 December 2020

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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Venice 1762-1844 Milan)
An architectural capriccio with arches and bridges (recto and verso)
faintly signed ‘Bison f’ (lower right)
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, fragmentary watermark
6 ¼ x 7 ¾ in. (16 x 19.7 cm)

From an album with drawings by Bison.
with Giancarlo Baroni, Florence, 1973 (this and the above according to the Landolt typescript catalogue), from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Besides his more finished gouaches showing Venetian views, landscapes and capricci, Bison made a large number of rapidly drawn architectural fantasies in pen and wash often featuring a prominent arch, as is the case here. In technique and style this sheet is particularly close to one in a private collection (A. Rizzi, Disegni del Bison, Bologna, 1976, no. 55, ill.).