Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Standing Man with a Cane

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.
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.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department