Stage set design of a partly overgrown rotunda seen from under an arch (i); Stage set design of a palace façade seen from under a bridge with Gothic arches (ii)

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Gaspare Galliari (Treviglio 1761-1823 Milan)
Stage set design of a partly overgrown rotunda seen from under an arch (i); Stage set design of a palace façade seen from under a bridge with Gothic arches (ii)
bodycolor
18 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (47.7 x 64.1 cm) (i); 19 x 25 5/8 in. (48.2 x 65.2 cm) (ii)
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Provenance

with Bruno de Bayser, Paris.
Lodewijk Arnold Houthakker (1926-2008), Amsterdam (L. 3893).
with David Tunkl Fine Art, 1991, Zurich.

Literature

P. Fuhring, Design into Art: Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, London,1989, II, nos. 925-926, ill.

Exhibited

's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum and Amsterdam, Toneelmuseum, De achtergrond belicht. Ontwerpen voor het theater 1580-1850, 1976, nos. 48-49.
Oberlin, Ohio, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, A New World. Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, 1986, nos. 68-69.

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Lot Essay

Born into a large family of artists and decorators, Galliari was trained in the Brera Academy in Milan and became a successful designer of perspectives and quadrature for privates as well as for the royal theatres of Turin and Milan. Of painterly finish, the two gouaches from the Alsdorf collection are typical exampels of his stage sets.

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