Design for a Stage Set: A Town Square with a Fountain.

1657–1743

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash over graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 9 x 11 1/8 in. (22.9 x 28.3 cm)
Collection no.: 80.3.644
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena. Design for a Stage Set: A Town Square with a Fountain.. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Design for a Stage Set: A Town Square with a Fountain. — Ferdinando Galli Bibiena. 1657–1743.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash over graphite. Dimensions: sheet: 9 x 11 1/8 in. (22.9 x 28.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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