Lot 83
83
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1756)
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1756)

The courtyard of a palace with porticos surmounted by statues: design for the stage

Details
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1756)
Galli, G.
Bibiena, G.
The courtyard of a palace with porticos surmounted by statues: design for the stage
with inscription 'Bibiena'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash
10 x 13.1/8 in. (267 x 333 mm.)

Lot Essay

Comparable with drawings by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena from the Houthakker collection, P. Fuhring, Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, the Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, nos. 873-4, 877. Giuseppe worked in Vienna from 1720 as second theater architect to the Court and from 1727 as first architect. He left Vienna in 1748.