FILIPPO JUVARRA
1678-1736
21 The Courtyard of a Palace:
Project for a Stage
Pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash, and black
chalk; H: 20.2 cm (8 in.); W: 19. i cm (y'Ain.)
88.GA.I
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: At bottom edge, at center,
inscribed Cortile in brown ink by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Count A. Cibrario, Turin; by descent to
Count L. Cibrario, Turin; sale, Christie's, London, De-
cember 13, 1984, lot 204; art market, Boston.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: L. Rovere, V. Viale, and A. E. Brinck-
mann, Filippo Juvarm (Turin, 1937), p. 159; V. Viale,
Mostra di Filippo Juvarra, architetto e scenografo (Messina,
1966), p. in; M. Viale Ferrero, "Disegni di Filippo Ju-
varra per il Teatro Capranica a Roma," Antichita viva 7
(1968), pp. 17-18; idem, Filippo Juv arra, scenografo e ar-
chitetto teatrale (Turin, 1970), pp. 58-60; 61, n. 27; 373,
no. 7.
THIS IS ONE OF THE SERIES OF EIGHT DRAWINGS BY Ju-
varra that were identified by Ferrero (1968) as studies for
stage sets for the opera Tito and Berenice (score by An-
tonio Caldara; libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece),
which was first performed at the Teatro Capranica,
Rome, in 1714. Though not employed in that produc-
tion, this courtyard scene may have been transformed
into another one during the development of the project
(ibid., p. 18), perhaps for scene 9, entitled Appartamenti
terreni (Ferrero 1970, p. 373). The style of this and related
drawings illustrates the imaginative and free character of
Juvarra's draughtsmanship as it evolved during the sec-
ond decade of the eighteenth century.62 ITALIAN SCHOOL • JUVARRA