Giuseppe Bernardino BISON
An Elegant, Masked Couple Drinking Coffee
Giuseppe Bernardino BISON
An Elegant, Masked Couple Drinking Coffee
Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Dimension 18.6 x 23.4 cm (7³/₈ x 9¹/₄ inches)
The sheet cut out in the middle, between the two seated figures, and the figure of the servant drawn on a separate piece of paper and inserted into the composition.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Dimension: 18.6 x 23.4 cm (7³/₈ x 9¹/₄ inches)
Provenance: Dr. J. Law Adam, Camberley, Surrey, in 1950
Bought from him for £4 by P. & D. Colnaghi, London
Purchased from them for £14.14s in May 1951 by Count Antoine Seilern, London
Private collection, England
Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 4 December 1989, lot 74
W. M. Brady and Co., New York, in 1990
Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn, New York
Thence by descent.
Exhibition: London, P. & D. Colnaghi, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1951, no.82 (as Scene in a Venetian Café); New York, W. M. Brady and Co., Master Drawings 1760-1880, 1990, no.15.
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