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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Figures Deciphering an Inscription, with Two Women Seated [Study for Oeuvres de Bossuet, IV], c. 1736

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Medium

black chalk on laid paper, laid down on album sheet

Dimensions

sheet: 12.7 × 21.59 cm (5 × 8 1/2 in.)
mount: 17.5 × 25.6 cm (6 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

Accession Number

2022.91.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (artist) Italian, 1683 - 1754

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: 31,5 x 8,5

Provenance

Private collection, Milan; (Cortona Fine Art, Milan); purchased 2021. by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

Exhibition History

2021: The Seduction of Drawing, Cortona Fine Art, Milan, 2021, no. 13.

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