Design for a Theater Interior

1700–1773

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink over freehand graphite and ruled construction lines in graphite
Dimensions: 11-1/4 x 17-1/16 in. (28.5 x 43.3 cm)
Collection no.: 65.536.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Luigi Vanvitelli. Design for a Theater Interior. Luigi Vanvitelli; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Donald Oenslager, 1965. 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 Theater Interior — Luigi Vanvitelli. 1700–1773.

Medium: Pen and brown ink over freehand graphite and ruled construction lines in graphite. Dimensions: 11-1/4 x 17-1/16 in. (28.5 x 43.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Donald Oenslager, 1965.

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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