Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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1720-1778

Horned Grotesque with Protruding Tongue

Red chalk on paper.

2 5/16 x 2 13/16 inches (60 x 69 mm)

Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.

1966.11:40

Inscription:

Numbered at lower left, in graphite, "32(?)".

Provenance:

Mrs. J. P. Morgan, New York; by descent to her sons Junius S. Morgan, Princeton and Paris (no mark, see Lugt 1536) and Henry S. Morgan, New York.

Notes:

On same mat as 1966.11:19; 20; 101.

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