Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design of a Perspective for a Stage Set with Courtyard and Triumphal Arch.

1657–1743
Pen and brown ink, brush and green and gray wash, over traces of leadpoint with some traces of white gouache to cancel parts of the drawing
22.3 × 27.5 cm (8.8 × 10.8 in)

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