Description
Optical print / Vue d’Optique with the representation of a stage set from a piece of the Commedia dell´Arte. Depiction of a street scene staggered from palais on both sides in a central perspective. There is a gallows in the background. In the middle of the composition and a coffin on the left edge, four guards watch the fragments of a torso of the Pierrot. On the right-hand edge, Pantalone runs into the inn The Donkey. Below that a German and Latin description of the scene. In the lower left corner the name of the painter of the original, the Salzburg theater painter Matthias Siller (1710-1790). In the lower right corner the printed signature of the Augsburg engraver Philipp Andreas Degmair (1711-1783). In the lower center the imperial printing privilege and the address of the publishing house of the imperial art academy in Augsburg. Plate 6 from a twelve-sheet series (including a title page) with depictions from the play: Der Schwätzer und der Leichtgäubige, which was performed on February 27, 1764 in the small hall of the Benedictine University in Salzburg. The comedy was written by the Benedictine monk Florian Reichssiegel (1735-1793), who dedicated the play to the Archbishop of Salzburg Sigismund Christoph von Schrattenbach. Catalog Salzburg 2004, Das barocke Universitätstheater in Salzburg page 12. The sheets from this series are very rare and form an important picture document for the German / Austrian theater history.
Plate: 30,1 x 41,5 cm
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