Architectural Perspective for a Stage Set with a Bridge, Statues and a Fountain in the Background and Human Figures in the Foreground
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Catalogue
- Year
- 1660
- Dimensions
- 10 -1/8 x 12 -11/16 in. (25.7 x 32.3 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist
Painting
Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at Bologna and Genoa about 1690. He engraved a series of architectural subjects, and decorations for the theatre, after Francesco Galli Bibiena, and others after Marcantonio Chiarini.
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Record
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- 1660
- Dimensions
- 10 -1/8 x 12 -11/16 in. (25.7 x 32.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1660-535372
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified