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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Sketch of a Peddler. Verso: sketch
ca. 1730-40
Black chalk on paper; verso: red chalk (sketch unseen, sheet pasted down).
9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches (247 x 179 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 94b
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On same mat as IV, 94a.
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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Piazzetta".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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