Palace Interior with Tritons and Mirrored Gallery, a Design for the Stage

While the best-known Bibiena sets evoke the courtyards of majestic Baroque palaces, the artists also followed contemporary architectural trends. This design, for example, suggests a grand Parisian hôtel interior, with a unified arrangement of chairs, side tables, and pier mirrors in a room decorated with paintings of gods and goddesses. The sheet may have been executed when Carlo Bibiena was assisting his father in Bayreuth.