Collection Online as of December 6, 2023

(Italian, 1696–1757)

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, with brush and brown wash and traces of yellow gouache; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Yellow-beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 31.6 x 45 cm (12 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.); Image: 31 x 44.4 cm (12 3/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Delia E. Holden Fund 1962.114

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, center right, in graphite: F 133 [circled ; lower right, in graphite: 26 [circled, underlined]

Provenance

Edmond Fatio, Geneva (his stamp (not in Lugt), lower right, in black ink; identification is according to sale catalogue); his sale [Nicolas Rauch S. A., Geneva, 3-4 June 1959] (according to sale catalogue xeroxed in departmental folder). [William H. Schab, New York]

Exhibition history

CMA, Eighteenth-Century Master Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Drawings by Bibiena Family (Jan. 1968), no. 43, illus.

CMA, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands (Jan. 14-Mar. 24, 1965).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Apr. 1, 1963).

CMA, "Year in Review for 1962" (Oct. 24-Nov. 25, 1962), cma Bulletin 49 (1962), p. 226 no. 117, illus. p. 218.

[according to cat. of Phila. show (thus, still to be verified?)]:

Florence (1958), no. 60.

Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Drawings by the Bibiena Family. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (January 10-February 28, 1968).

18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Monumental Vaulted Hall with Staircase

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Location

Inscription