Ruins of a Building with Two Women, 18th century

  • Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659-1739

Pen and brown wash over a preliminary drawing in graphite on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 12 1/8 × 8 7/16 inches (30.8 × 21.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR119

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Watermark: fragment of trefoil (similar to Briquet 6247) Stamp, in green, verso, lower right corner: A.P.E. Gasc (Lugt 1131) Stamp, in red, verso, center right: Charles Gasc (Lugt 543) Stamp, in purple, verso, lower right center: Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper center: Francico Falli [dêl le | Bibiena Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower center: 10

A.P.E. Gasc (Paris, France)

Charles Gasc (Paris, France)

1861 or 1865, Gasc sale (Paris, France)

L. Trilha, (Paris, France)

J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 285a (as by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 298, no. A45.

manner of Francesco Galli Bibiena, Ruins of a Building with Two Women, 18th century, pen and brown wash over a preliminary drawing in graphite on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR119.