Antonio Basoli (1774-1848)

Details

Antonio Basoli (1774-1848)

A Chinese Square with Pagodas: Design for the Stage

with inscriptions 'Piaza chinesa' (twice); black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, fragmentary watermark three crescents
257 x 370mm.

Provenance

Adolph Stein, 1967

Literature

P. Fuhring, no. 936

Exhibited

's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, De achtergrond belicht. Ontwepen voor het theater 1580-1800, 1976, no. 25

Lot Essay

Formerly attributed to Fabrizio Galliari, Peter Fuhring suggested that this is by Basoli. He cited drawings of Chinese squares and pagodas; one in the Accademia Clementina, Bologna was engraved and published in 1810 and the other in the Gabinetto dei Disegni, Bologna. Fuhring does not rule out the possibility that the present drawing is by a studio hand