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Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soliders (Esther and Ahasveras?)
Gaetano Lazzara1703
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Left half is shown. View through a kind of proscenium with a caryatid in an apse. It has a basement with window grates. The main floor has the shape of an arcade with balconies with screens. Three steps lead into the center to a platform upon which twisted columns, three in a row, support an arch. Shown is "Ahasverus," accompanied by soldiers, stretching out his arms towards "Esther," kneeling. The mace is in his right hand.
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- Title: Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soliders (Esther and Ahasveras?)
- Creator: Gaetano Lazzara
- Creator Lifespan: 1730
- Date Created: 1703
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen, light and dark brown ink, brush, light and dark brown wash over black chalk on white laid paper
- Signed: Singed in pen and brown ink, lower right.
- Provenance: Ex-Collection: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Inscribed: Written on the lower step: "Gaetano Lazzara Arch [tto] 1703." Framing line, below, at left. Below is the scale: "Canna." Signed in pen and brown ink in lower right.
- Exhibitions: Wellesley, Mass.- Wellesley College, " The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," Sept. 12 - Nov. 22, 1970.New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," Feb. 4 - March 20, 1970.
- Dimensions: 38.6 x 23.2 cm (15 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
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