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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Portrait of a Girl with a Pear
17 x 13 1/2 inches (432 x 343 mm)
Black and white chalk with smudging, on blue laid paper.
IV, 89
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Probably "Taste" in a series of figures representing the five senses; see IV, 90 and IV, 91.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 89, repr.
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, no. 42, repr.
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, no. 42, repr.
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