Italian School, late 18th Century

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Italian School, late 18th Century

A Cartouche with Allegorical Figures and a Putto: Design for a Stage Curtain (?)

inscribed 'AL TEATRO DA S AGOSTINO SI RAPRESENTA'; black chalk, bodycolour, on light brown paper
282 x 202mm.
Provenance
A.D. Bérard (L.75)
Literature
P. Fuhring, no. 191
Exhibited
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Catalogue Descriptif des dessins de décoration et d'ornement de maitres anciens, 1880, no. 649

Lot Essay

Perhaps intended as a decoration for a theaterical programme or, as was suggested in the 1880 exhibition, for a theater curtain. Bernard Aikena suggested the drawing was by a Venetian hand