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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Design for an Altarpiece. Verso: another version of the same subject
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, over black chalk.
Sheet: 11 x 6 1/4 inches (280 x 159 mm); design area: 10 x 4 7/8 inches (254 x 125 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1982.51
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Watermark: letters "FC".
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Purchased in 1954 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Italian Baroque Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. Columbia, S.C. : Columbia Museum of Art, 1961, no. 63.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 287.
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