Details
| Artist | Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754 |
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| Date | ca. 1715 |
| Medium | black chalk, heightened with white, on blue antique laid paper with fibrous inclusions |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 23 1/16 × 17 1/16 inches (58.6 × 43.3 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Henry Tracy Kneeland in memory of his sister, Helen Kneeland Kaufman |
| Accession Number | 55.283 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Marks | Watermark: [trefoil and additional indecipherable elements] |
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| Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right center: Ashmolean | TS |
Provenance
D. R. Nott (London, England).
P. & D. Colnaghi (London, England).
Charles Cunningham (Hartford, Connecticut, USA).
Henry Tracy Kneeland (Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA);
1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
P. & D. Colnaghi (London, England).
Charles Cunningham (Hartford, Connecticut, USA).
Henry Tracy Kneeland (Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA);
1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Art in Italy. Exh. cat., Miami Art Center. Miami, 1969, p. 17, no. 33.
Harris, John. A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture, and Landscape Gardening 1500-1900 in American Collections. Upper Saddle River, 1971 p. 158 (pl. 114).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 124-125, no. 60.
Knox, George. Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 1, p. 43 (ill.
Harris, John. A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture, and Landscape Gardening 1500-1900 in American Collections. Upper Saddle River, 1971 p. 158 (pl. 114).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 124-125, no. 60.
Knox, George. Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 1, p. 43 (ill.
