Pietro Rosselli

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Pietro Rosselli

ca. 1700-after 1771

Death of Darius

ca. 1745-47

Pen and brown ink over black chalk on paper.

7 1/4 x 10 15/16 inches (184 x 278 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1982.52

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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Attributed by George Knox to the Venetian Painter Pietro Roselli (active eighteenth century) in "Piazzetta : A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books." Washington : National Gallery of Art, 1983, no. 10, repr.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and black ink, "piazetta"; on verso, visible at upper corner of recto, "Piazeta...(crossed out) 6 m".

Provenance:

Dr. Adam Politzer (1835-1920), Vienna (his stamp on verso of mount; similar to Lugt 2037); F. Rockman Galleries, New York; Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1754, Formerly attributed to.
Politzer, Adam, 1835-1920, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Venetian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 51, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 288.

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