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Drawings for Book Illustrations

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754

Drawings for Book Illustrations

Various
Variously executed in red and black chalk, graphite, and pen and brown ink, on paper.
1961.12:1-94

Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Notes
Disbound and housed in solander boxes.
Decorated title page by another hand, pen and black ink with gray wash; lettered, "Raccolta / delle opere / piu segnalate in disegno / a lapis rosso e nero / inventate e delineate dal celebre / Giambatista Piazzetta / Veneto pittore".
The drawings from the Kress Album were done for two different projects: "La Gerusalemme Liberata," produced in 1745 by the Venetian publisher Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, and "Studi di pittura," an instructional book with anatomical studies for beginning draughtsmen published by Albrizzi in 1760, a copy of which is in the Museo Correr, Venice.
Associated names
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, former owner.
Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, former owner.
Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1863-1955, former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 85-87.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 159.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, nos. 45, 47, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department