Paolo Gerolamo Piola

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Paolo Gerolamo Piola
1666-1724
Design for the Ceiling Decoration, Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa. Verso: Additional figure studies for the same composition
Black and white chalk, on light brown paper, cropped diagonally at corners; verso: black chalk.
7 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches (197 x 206 mm)
Purchased on the Walter C. Baker Fund.
1982.93

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Watermark: none.

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Illegibly inscribed at upper margin, in black chalk; numbered at lower right, "190 / 210 / 70"; inscribed on verso at lower margin, "genuese(?)"; and "deferari(?)".

Provenance: 
Jean-Luc Baroni, London; P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London.
Associated names: 

Baroni, Jean-Luc, 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. 288.

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