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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Four Sketches of the Virgin and Saints
ca. 1750
Red chalk over black chalk, on paper.
Each drawing: 3 1/4 x 5 3/16 inches (83 x 131 mm); sheet: outer border 9 1/16 x 13 5/16 inches (230 x 338 mm); sheet: inner border 8 1/8 x 12 1/2 inches (206 x 318 mm)
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
1961.12:18
Provenance:
Sir William Eden, 5th Baronet of Maryland and 7th Baronet of West Auckland, England; Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence; acquired in 1932 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York.
Associated names:
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, former owner.
Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, former owner.
Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1863-1955, former owner.
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