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Tranquillo Orsi
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Tranquillo Orsi
- A Stage Design
- Point of the brush and brown wash over black chalk within black chalk framing lines;
signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Tranquillo Orsi, also bears inscription in black chalk, lower centre: Orsi
Provenance
With Alister Mathews, London, from whom purchased, March 1961
Exhibited
Newcastle 1964, no. 95
Catalogue Note
Tranquillio Orsi was a Professor of Architecture in Venice, who was responsible for the interior decoration of the theatre, La Fenice, in the Neo-Classical style after the fire of 1836.
Sold together with four other drawings:
Francesco Bartoli, A Ceiling Design;
Giuseppe Valeriani, Design for a bed recess;
Emile Wolff, Chimney piece design decorated with figures of Venus and Cupid;
Giuseppe Manocchi, Section of the Sala Pianterreno by Algardi in the Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome