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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Male Nude with a Staff
ca. 1750-1754
Black chalk on paper, ruled border.
15 3/4 x 10 15/16 inches (400 x 277 mm)
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
1961.12:56
Notes:
This drawing is a study for plates XXXVII (in which the figure appears only in outline) and XXXVIII of Piazzetta's Studi di pittura. Piazzetta's influence on Giambattista Tiepolo is apparent in such sheets by the younger artist as the monumental study of a male nude posed as Hercules (inv. no. 1981.108), in the Morgan's collection. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Inscription:
Signed at lower left: "Piazzetta Fe"; numbered 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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