Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background

1762–1844

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and orange-gold, black wash with white gouache over traces of leadpoint on blue prepared paper
Dimensions: 6-1/8 x 11-7/16 in. (15.5 x 29 cm)
Collection no.: 66.561
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background. Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, June 1966. 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

Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background — Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. 1762–1844.

Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and orange-gold, black wash with white gouache over traces of leadpoint on blue prepared paper. Dimensions: 6-1/8 x 11-7/16 in. (15.5 x 29 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, June 1966.

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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