Vertical Oval Vignette of A Palace Interior with Two Figures Admiring Decoration; a Craggy Mountain Seen Through a Window in The Far Distance.

Vertical Oval Vignette of A Palace Interior with Two Figures Admiring Decoration; a Craggy Mountain Seen Through a Window in The Far Distance.

Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967

Catalogue

Year
1660
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (24.1 x 18.4 cm)

Artist

C
Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti

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.

Bologna

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