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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Portrait of a Young Woman, in Profile
ca. 1735
Black chalk, with white chalk, on blue paper, faded.
17 x 13 3/4 inches (432 x 349 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 91
Notes:
Probably "Touch" in a series of figures representing the five senses; see IV, 90 and IV, 89.
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, 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, 91, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library gästar Nationalmuseum, juni-september 1970. Stockholm: Nationalmuseet, 1970, no. 42.
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