Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Standing Man with a Cane
15 9/15 x 10 1/4 inches (395 x 260 mm)
Black and white chalk, on blue paper.
1982.54
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Preparatory study for the figure in the lower corner of the Allegorical Tomb in Honor of Lord Chancellor Somers, commissioned between 1723 and 1729, now in Birmingham.
Preparatory study for the figure in the lower corner of the Allegorical Tomb in Honor of Lord Chancellor Somers, commissioned between 1723 and 1729, now in Birmingham.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, by the "Reliable Venetian Hand", in pen and brown ink, "Giambatista Piazzetta Venez.o".
Associated names
Hollstein-Rathau, Sophie von, Countess, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 287.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 53.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 53.
Classification
Century Drawings
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