Pietro Gonzaga (Longarone 1751-1831 Saint Petersburg)
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Pietro Gonzaga (Longarone 1751-1831 Saint Petersburg)

The interior of a circular classical temple: Design for a stage set, possibly for La Fenice, Venice

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Pietro Gonzaga (Longarone 1751-1831 Saint Petersburg)
The interior of a circular classical temple: Design for a stage set, possibly for La Fenice, Venice
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
8¼ x 11 in. (212 x 278 mm.); and designs for a stage set by Pasquale Antonio Michele and for a colonnaded building by G. di Rosso (3)
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Lot Essay

Another version of this design by Gonzaga is in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, where it is described as a design for the stage curtain of La Fenice, Venice (M.T. Murano, Scenografie di Pietro Gonzaga, exhib. cat., Venice, Cini Foundation, 1967, no. 96).

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