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Male Nude with a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754

Male Nude with a Staff

ca. 1750-1754
15 3/4 x 10 15/16 inches (400 x 277 mm)
Black chalk on paper, ruled border.
1961.12:56

Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Notes
This drawing is a study for plates XXXVII (in which the figure appears only in outline) and XXXVIII of Piazzetta's Studi di pittura. Piazzetta's influence on Giambattista Tiepolo is apparent in such sheets by the younger artist as the monumental study of a male nude posed as Hercules (inv. no. 1981.108), in the Morgan's collection. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left: "Piazzetta Fe"; numbered 18.
Associated names
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, former owner.
Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, former owner.
Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1863-1955, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department