Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right

Domenico FossatiWW-1743-009037

1743·Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite·sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (20 x 31.8 cm)

Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971

Catalogue

Year: 1743
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (20 x 31.8 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Domenico Fossati

Artist

Domenico Fossati

Painting

Domenico Fossati was born at Venice in 1743, and studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti of that city. He distinguished himself as a painter of architecture and a decorator, and his works are to be met with in the theatres and palaces of Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Udine, Monza, and Gratz, and in the Scala at Milan. He died in Venice in 1785.

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