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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Chair with Shield Back
ca. 1765-1769
Pen and brown ink on paper; extraneous lines in black chalk.
3 1/16 x 1 7/8 inches (77 x 48 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:102
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For similar chair designs see 1966.11:86 and Berlin Kunstbibliothek HdZ 6301.
On same mat as 1966.11:93; 104; 105.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso, in graphite, "Nine Inches hig[h] / five Inches hi[gh]".
Watermark: Circle with three mounts and letter "G", fragment.
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.
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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. 102, repr.
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