Lot 464: TRANQUILLO ORSI

1771 - 1845 VENICE A STAGE DESIGN Quantity: 5 Point of the brush and brown wash over black chalk within black chalk framing lines; signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Tranquillo Orsi, also bears inscription in black chalk, lower centre: Orsi 237 by 300 mm

Newcastle 1964, no. 95

With Alister Mathews, London, from whom purchased, March 1961

Tranquillio Orsi was a Professor of Architecture in Venice, who was responsible for the interior decoration of the theatre, La Fenice, in the Neo-Classical style after the fire of 1836. Sold together with four other drawings: Francesco Bartoli, A Ceiling Design; Giuseppe Valeriani, Design for a bed recess; Emile Wolff, Chimney piece design decorated with figures of Venus and Cupid; Giuseppe Manocchi, Section of the Sala Pianterreno by Algardi in the Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome