About the Artwork
A Fantastic View of a City
between 1696 and 1757
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
1696-1757
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown, black and blue inks, brush and black ink, gray and blue washes on light buff laid paper
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 36 9/16 inches (50.5 × 92.9 cm) Framed: 29 × 45 1/2 × 3/4 inches (73.7 × 115.6 × 1.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
67.3
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center: Bibiena Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, lower center: G206 | 58 x 11 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right corner: X11 Inscribed, in pencil, back of paper mount: ALO ALTRIPP 1958 | G 206 | 58 X 11
Embossed stamp, upper left corner: SCHUTZMARKE SCHOELLERSHAMMER HAMMER 46
Provenance
1961, P. & D. Colnaghi, no. 43 (London, England)
1966, H. Shickman Gallery (New York, New York, USA)
1967-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 92, no. 39, p. 143 (pl. xv).
Kelder, Diane. Drawings by the Bibiena Family. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadephia, 1968, no. 37.
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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, A Fantastic View of a City, between 1696 and 1757, pen and brown, black and blue inks, brush and black ink, gray and blue washes on light buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, 67.3.
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