This unfinished drawing of a complex colonnaded space animated by mirrors and statues depicts the right half of a palatial atrium. Baroque stages were rarely decorated with tall vertical backdrops, so if used for a production, the design would have been mirrored, with the left half drawn to match the right.
Follower of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1695–1757)
Study of an Architectural Perspective, ca. 1730
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Promised gift of Jules Fisher