Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Juno Asking Venus for Her Magic Girdle (Cestus)
9 13/16 x 7 3/16 inches (250 x 183 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over red chalk, on paper.
1982.56
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: three balls with letter A, and illegible fragment.
Illustration for Iliad XIV: 200-225.
Illustration for Iliad XIV: 200-225.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed, on mount at lower right, possibly in an eighteenth-century hand, in pen and brown ink, "G. B. Piazzetta feci"; on verso, "... Piazzetta"; in another hand, "No [o superscript] 25 c".
Associated names
Scholz, János, former owner.
Homer. Iliad.
Homer. Iliad.
Bibliography
Twentieth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1984, p. 287-288.
Classification
Century Drawings
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