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Workshop of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Sketch of Head and Shoulders of a Man
ca. 1775-1778
Pen and brown ink on paper.
3 1/4 x 3 3/16 inches (83 x 82 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:117
Notes:
This drawing is by an unidentified member of Piranesi's workshop in his latest years; the figure study on 1966.11:118 is by the same hand.
On same mat as 1966.11:118.
Inscription:
Numbered at upper left, in graphite, "52".
Provenance:
Mrs. J. P. Morgan, New York; by descent to her sons Junius S. Morgan, Princeton and Paris (no mark, see Lugt 1536) and Henry S. Morgan, New York.
Associated names:
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 117, repr.
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