Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York
FILIPPO JUVARRA | AN ARCHITECTURAL FANTASY: A SET DESIGN FOR THE OPERA "TEODOSIO IL GIOVANE", SCENE VII
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Private Collection of Pat and Michael York
FILIPPO JUVARRA
Messina 1678 - 1736 Madrid
AN ARCHITECTURAL FANTASY: A SET DESIGN FOR THE OPERA "TEODOSIO IL GIOVANE", SCENE VII
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash
132 by 198 mm; 5¼ by 7⅞ in
Pieter Hoogeweegen, Rotterdam (L.2101a);
Dr. Richard P. Wunder, New York;
with Spencer Drummond Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda
M. Viale Ferrero, Filippo Juvarra scenografico ed architetto teatrale, 1970, p. 385
Middlebury College, Vermont, Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, 1975, p. 32, no. 31, p. 107, reproduced
As noted in the Middlebury College catalogue (see Exhibited), Dr. Viale Ferrero considers this drawing to be for Scene VII of the opera Teodosio il Giovane, first performed in the Teatro Ottoboni, in Rome, in 1711. In Juvarra’s finished drawing for the set, in the collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale, Turin,1 as well as the engraving made from it, the composition has already been altered through the re-positioning of the equestrian monument and the redesigning of the arch.
See also the previous lot.
1. Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, inv. no. Ris. 59,4