Architectural Fantasy (recto); Architectural Details (verso)

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Mauro Antonio Tesi
Italian, 1730-1766

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Mauro Antonio Tesi
Title: Architectural Fantasy (recto); Architectural Details (verso)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1750–1766
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.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1959.185
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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).

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)..

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.

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