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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Tailpiece Design
Red chalk on paper.
9 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (237 x 318 mm); with sheet outer border: 10 3/16 x 13 5/16 inches (259 x 338 mm); sheet inner border: 9 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (237 x 318 mm)
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
1961.12:28
Provenance:
Sir William Eden, 5th Baronet of Maryland and 7th Baronet of West Auckland, England; Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence; acquired in 1932 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York.
Summary:
Two Women, One Seated and One Standing, and a Child by a Pond, a Figure Mounted on a Horse and Two Figures in Background: Tailpiece Design, Canto XII, Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata (same direction).
Associated names:
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, former owner.
Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, former owner.
Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1863-1955, former owner.
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