A stage design of a palace garden

Details

FABRIZIO GALLIARI (ANDORNO MICCA 1709-1790 TREVOGLIO)
A stage design of a palace garden
pen and brown ink, watercolor
11 ¾ x 17 ½ in. (30 x 44.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Durlacher Brothers, New York, where acquired by the Ford Foundation in December 1966.

Lot Essay

A very similar design for Ch. W. Gluck's opera Antigone produced at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1774 is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 639; M. Viale Ferrero, La scenografia del '700 e i fratelli Galliari, Turin, 1963, p. 276).

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