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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

A Boy with a Lute, c. 1740

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on (faded) blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 36.3 x 29.5 cm (14 5/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation

Accession Number

1979.40.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (artist) Italian, 1683 - 1754

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Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421); N. Chaikin; Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Bick

Associated Names

Bick, Malcolm W., Dr.

Exhibition History

1971: Italian Drawings from the Bick Collection, Dartmouth College, no. 38

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 414, no. 129 (repro. p. 414)(entry by Annalisa Prissa Torrini).

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 52.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 59.

Bibliography

1983: Knox 1983, 41.

2012: Percival, Melissa. Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure. Vermont, Ashgate (2012): 68, no. 2.16

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