A Stage Design for an Opera with Actors

Provenance

(sale, Christie’s, Rome, 24 May 1988, no. 313). (sale, Christie’s Paris, 5 October 2015, no. 21); purchased by David McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2021.

A Stage Design for an Opera with Actors

Bibiena, Giuseppe Galli

18th century

Accession Number

2022.14.1

Medium

pen and black and brown ink with gray and brown wash on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 31.43 × 49.53 cm (12 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell