16 SICILIAN SCHOOL Late 18th Century Designs for a Trompe l’Oeil Wall Decoration Watercolour, pen and grey ink and grey wash. Inscribed with a scale labeled Scala di Palmi dieci Siciliani, in brown ink over pencil, at the upper left. 472 x 288 mm. (18 5/ 8 x 11 1/4 in.) PROVENANCE: Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 22 April 1998, lot 336 (as Italian School, 18th Century); P. & D. Colnaghi, London, in 1998; Private collection, Florida. Attributions to the Sicilian architects Andrea Giganti (1737-1878) or Elia Interguglielmi (1746-1835) have been tentatively suggested.
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