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| GIUSEPPE BERNADINO BISON (Palmanova 1762–1844 Milan)
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| Figures Mourning at a Tomb
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Red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash
Inscribed "Bisson"
284 x 186 mm
Provenance:
Sir Brinsley Ford, London, his sale, Christie’s, London, 12 December 1985, lot 284.
Private collection, USA.
Bison trained at the Accademia di Pittura in Venice amid the influence of the great eighteenth-century Venetian painters. He excelled as a decorative painter, designing scenes for the theatre of La Fenice in Venice and painting murals and ceilings in various palazzi of the Veneto. His many drawings exhibit a free and rapid use of pen and ink. In the present sheet, he began with a quick sketch in red chalk to lay out the composition. On top of this, he added varied tones of grey wash and pen and ink to give the drawing great atmosphere. Bison invented many of these neoclassical architectural capriccios.
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