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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Architectural Fantasy (recto); Architectural Details (verso)
    Mauro Antonio Tesi. Architectural Fantasy (recto); Architectural Details (verso), n.d.. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004910

    Architectural Fantasy (recto); Architectural Details (verso)

    by Mauro Antonio Tesi

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Cav. Prof. Armando Perera, Rome [Joachim 1980]. Edmond Fatio (died 1959); sold, Nicholas Rausch S.A., Geneva, June 3-4, 1959, Fatio sale, lot 10, as by Bibiena. Sold by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.

    Exhibition history

    Minneapolis, University Gallery, The University of Minnesota, "The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists," January 24-March 7, 1961, cat. 5, as by Bibiena (recto). New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 10, as by Bibiena (recto). New Orleans, Tulane University, "Drawings and Architecture," March 15-26, 1965, cat. 4, as by Bibiena (recto). Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Drawings by the Bibiena Family," January 10-February 28, 1968, cat. 11, as by Bibiena (recto). The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 44-45, cat. 21 (ill. recto and verso), cat. by Harold Joachim (recto). The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 150, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C (recto)..

    Publications

    Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), p. 91, no. 150, pl. 158 (recto). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 2A7 (recto).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Mauro Antonio Tesi / Italian, 1730-1766
    Date
    n.d.
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and watercolor (recto), nad pen and brown ink with brush and gray and brown wash (verso), on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    27.7 × 18.7 cm (10 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
    Accession no.
    1959.185

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