Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments

1762–1844

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: 7 -15/16 x 11- 7/16 in. (20.2 x 29 cm)
Collection no.: 1971.513.53
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments. Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Sketch of a Palace's Interior's Foreshortening with Stairs, Statues and Ornaments — Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. 1762–1844.

Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk. Dimensions: 7 -15/16 x 11- 7/16 in. (20.2 x 29 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971.

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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