With its double loggia and clusters of beautifully rendered columns, this design bears comparison with engravings in Giuseppe Bibiena’s Architetture, e prospettive. It is especially close to a stage set he designed in 1719 for a production marking the wedding of Prince Frederick Augustus of Saxony and Archduchess Maria Josefa in Vienna.
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1695–1757)
Courtyard of a Princely Palace, ca. 1719
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and blue watercolor
Promised gift of Jules Fisher