Design for a Stage Set: A Classical Courtyard and Colonnade with a Statue of Minerva

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Artist: Leonardo Marini (Italian, Piedmontese documented ca. 1730–after 1797)
Date: 1780–90
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray, blue, green and pink watercolor, over graphite or lead, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 17-3/8 x 12-3/8 in. (44.2 x 31.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Accession no.: 69.553

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Leonardo Marini
1774–78 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020646
Design for One Eighth of a Ceiling of a Reception Room at the Royal Palace at Moncalieri
Leonardo Marini
1774–78 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020647
Design for the Interior of a Gallery of a Palace
Leonardo Marini
1760–97 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020648
Design for a Ceiling
Leonardo Marini
1774–78 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020649

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.