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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Apollo, the Muses, and Mars: In Praise of Tasso, 1740/1745

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Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 42.5 × 29.9 cm (16 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

1981.65.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (artist) Italian, 1683 - 1754

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Provenance

(sale Sotheby's London, 7 December 1978, no. 114); Adolphe Stein Gallery, Paris; purchased by NGA.

Associated Names

Stein, Adolphe

Exhibition History

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 418, no. 134 (repro. p. 418)(entry by Annalisa Prissa Torrini).

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 51.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 62.

Bibliography

1983: G.B. Piazzetta: Disegni-Incisioni-Libri Manoscritti. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1983: 40.

1983: Piazzetta, A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1983: 166-167, no. 74.

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat. Electa, Milan, 1995: 417-418.

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