Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Two Studies of Figures Among the Ruins
Red chalk on paper.
Each drawing: 8 9/16 x 17 inches (218 x 432 mm); sheet: outer border 11 x 17 7/8 inches (279 x 454 mm); sheet: inner border 10 1/4 x 17 1/16 inches (260 x 433 mm)
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
1961.12:64
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Numbered at bottom right 64.

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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.
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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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