An architectural capriccio with a triumphal arch: Study for a frontispiece

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Maurizio Pedetti (Carasco 1719-1799 Eichstätt)
An architectural capriccio with a triumphal arch: Study for a frontispiece
signed and dated 'Mauritius Pedetti in: e. Deli: 1784' (lower left)
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash, pen and black ink framing lines
718 x 534 mm.

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After working together with his father Donato Giuseppe Frisoni on the building of the Ludwigsburg Castle, the young Pedetti went on a sojourn to Italy where he studied architecture with Giovanni Baptiste Nolli between 1739 and 1741. Pedetti worked at the court of the bishop duke of Speyer, at the court of King Christian VI of Denmark and from 1750 onwards as Hofbaudirektor in Eichstätt. Architectural projects, he was involved in, include the orphanage in Eichstätt and the Residenzschloss of the Mark Counts of Baden.

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