Attributed to Alessandro Galli Bibiena

J. Tetlow (L.2868)

Unframed. Attached at corners to 20th Century mount. There is some light foxing and a vertical crease to the right of the centre. The ink slightly sunk in parts. Otherwise the condition is fine. Wash slightly warmer and less yellow than appears in catalogue illustration.
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Alessandro Galli Bibiena was the eldest son of Ferdinando, and the majority of his work, mostly associated with his activity as a scenographer, is today in Munich.  The Graphische Sammlung has the largest known group of Bibiena drawings, over six hundred and fifty sheets which came from the court of Mannheim, for whom Alessandro worked almost exclusively.¹  The artist has here embellished his composition not just with generic decorative sculptures but with famous antique statues.

1. For some examples of his drawings see Disegni teatrali dei Bibiena, exhib. cat., Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore, 1970, pp. 71-79, nos 91 to 105, some reproduced