Theater Design, Possibly The Triumph of Hannibal 1784-1792 Louis Jean Desprez French Originally trained as an architect, Desprez is best known for his drawings for the abbé de Saint Nons Voyage pittoresque de Naples et de Sicile (1781-86), and from 1784 on, his theater designs for the Gustav IIIs opera house in Stockholm. This sheet may have originally been part of a sketchbook and can, in any case, be considered as part of a group of sketches of similar dimensions, executed in the same media, and all lightly squared. The majority of such drawings are conserved at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden. The subjects of these sketches often feature classical architecture either observed in or inspired by the environs of Rome, southern Italy, or Sicily, with figures enacting imagined historical events. This drawing appears to represent an ancient theater in a style influenced by the many ruins Desprez studied during his travels across southern Italy and Sicily that he undertook with D
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