Lots 374 - 429: Property from the Collection of A. Alfred Taubman
Thommaso Cominotto
Plan du jardin Anglais
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 25, 10:35 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Thommaso Cominotto
circa 1814
Plan du jardin Anglais
Pen and black ink and watercolor, over pencil, within the remains of black ink framing lines;
signed, inscribed and dated in ink: Inventé et dessiné par Th. Cominotto de Coni…Plan du Jardin Anglais / selon le theme proposé au Soussigné par Mr Fernd. Bonsignore / Professeur a L’Academie Imperiale de Turin. L’An 1814.
400 by 578 mm; 15¾ by 22¾ in.
Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 13 January 1988, lot 192
This plan of an ideal garden reflects the great influence which English garden design had in Europe at the end of the 18th and early years of the 19th centuries, with its serpentine rills and irregular plan. The inscription on the drawing indicates that it was done as an assignment given by Ferdinand Bonsignore, professor at the Imperial Academy of Turin. Bonsignore (Turin 1760-1843) studied in Turin and then in Rome and Florence. In 1803 he was appointed professor of architecture in Turin. Prior to this appointment, in 1801, he designed a fireworks display in honor of Napoleon’s visit.
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