Design for a Stage Sets: Anteroom with Stairs Leading to a Gallery Composed of a Series of Connected Barrel Vaults
Giovanni Battista Natali III · Italian
Date: 1698–1765
Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush with brown and gray wash
Dimensions: 6 3/16 x 4 5/16in. (15.7 x 11cm)
Classification: Drawings
Themes: Arches, Stairs, Theatre
Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Foundation Gift, 1974
Date range
1698 – 1765
Largest dimension
11.0 cm
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