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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Architectural prospect through a wide arch

Lot Closed

March 23, 04:14 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Parma 1696 - 1756 Berlin

Architectural prospect through a wide arch


Pen and brown and black ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk, the upper corners made up

483 by 315 mm; 19 by 12 ½ in

André-Denis Bérard, Paris (1806-1873), (L.75);
Jordan M. Whitelaw, Boston
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Drawings by the Bibiena Family, 1968, no. 29
This design, engraved by Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748), is found in the 1740 Augsburg edition of Bibiena's Architetture, E Prospettive Dedicate Alla Maestà Di Carlo Sesto Imperador De' Romani Da Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Suo Primo Ingegner Teatrale, Ed Architetto, Inventore Delle Medesime. The subject depicted is taken from the Passion of Christ, with the tiny figure of Christ, his hands already bound, depicted beginning to descend the staircase.