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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Frontispiece for Gerusalemme Liberata
ca. 1740
Black chalk on laid paper, ruled borders on decorative mount.
12 x 17 1/8 inches (304 x 434 mm) Decorative mount : 20 3/4 x 15 1/16 inches (525 x 380) mm)
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
1961.12:74
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Inscription on medallion: "SOLA SIBI SATIS."
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.
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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