PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE LORE AND RUDOLF HEINEMANN SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON

Giuseppe Barberi (1746-1809)

Design for a Stage Set: A monumental Stairway leading to Colonnades

Details

Giuseppe Barberi (1746-1809)
Design for a Stage Set: A monumental Stairway leading to Colonnades
pen and brown ink, brown wash, in an Italian 18th Century carved and gilded frame, probably Venetian
421 x 562 mm.

Provenance

With Knoedler.

Lot Essay

A drawing by the same hand of similar subject and size is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, M.L. Myers, Architectural and Ornament Drawings, New York, 1975, no. 2, illustrated. Barberi trained as a silversmith with Luigi Valadier, father of Giuseppe, and executed many architectural projects. Several sheets by Barberi are at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York.

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