Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Portrait of a Man Reading
Black chalk, with white chalk with smudging, on blue laid paper.
16 3/4 x 13 3/16 inches (426 x 335 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 92
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Watermark: Kneeling Man or Saint in a Shield. Watermark, transmitted light, man, saint, shield.

Provenance: 
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 92, repr.

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