Stage Design

Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke de Leuchtenberg (1817-1852), St. Petersberg, Russia, by 1852 [1];

By descent to his grandson, George Nikolaevich de Leuchtenberg (1872–1929), Bavaria, Germany, by 1929;

Edmond Fatio (1871-1959), Geneva, Switzerland, by 1946-1959 [2];

Purchased at his sale, Collection Edmond Fatio, Nicolas Rauch S.A., Geneva, June 3-4, 1959, lot 241, as Album de 143 esquisses et dessins de diverses grandeurs. In-folio, veau ancien, by the dealer P.& D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London, 1959;

Purchased from Colnaghi by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 1, 1959-1961 [3];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.

NOTES:

[1] According to a pencil notation on the back of the drawing's historic mat. This is one of 143 design and architectural drawings by Valeriani and other 18th-century artists, which were formerly in a single folio in the collection of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg. The folio was likely disassembled by 1946, when twenty-seven of its drawings were exhibited separately at Architektur- und Dekorations-Zeichnungen der Barockzeit aus der Sammlung Edmond Fatio, Genf, Eidg. Techn. Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland. See also Collection Edmond Fatio (Geneva: Nicolas Rauch S.A., 1959), 59-61.

[2] Edmond Fatio was a Swiss architect who collected Old Master drawings, primarily decorative and architectural designs.

[3] P. & D. Colnaghi invoice, October 1, 1959, Nelson-Atkins Archives, MSS007 Milton McGreevy Papers, box 1, folder 2.