A neoclassical pavillion, perhaps in the park at Tsarskoe Selo

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Giacomo Quarenghi (Bergamo 1744-1817 Saint Petersburg)
A neoclassical pavillion, perhaps in the park at Tsarskoe Selo
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey and brown wash, on a contemporary mount
4 3/8 x 7¼ in. (111 x 185 mm.)

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Lot Essay

One of a number of capriccio workings of designs for pavilions in the parks of Catherine the Great's country estates, for example the Music Pavilion built at Tsarskoye Selo in 1781-4, which has a similar dome and semi-circular portico to the present drawing and of which there is a view in the Biblioteca Civica, Bergamo (Disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, exhib. cat., Bergamo, Palazzo della Ragione, and elsewhere, 1967, no. 176).

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