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Standing Man Gesturing with His Right Arm

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Standing Man Gesturing with His Right Arm

ca. 1770.
5 3/16 x 3 1/4 inches (132 x 83 mm)
Black chalk on paper.
1958.6

Gift of Richard S. Davis.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Like other figure drawings by Piranesi showing men wearing aprons and with rolled-up sleeves, this is likely a quick sketch of a printer in his workshop.
Associated names
Hirsch, Robert von, former owner.
Davis, Richard S., 1917-1985, former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 102.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 160.
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. A-10, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department