Figures Deciphering an Inscription, with Two Women Seated [Study for Oeuvres de Bossuet, IV]
c. 1736
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Artist, Italian, 1683 - 1754
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Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk on laid paper, laid down on album sheet
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 12.7 × 21.59 cm (5 × 8 1/2 in.)
mount: 17.5 × 25.6 cm (6 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2022.91.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Milan; (Cortona Fine Art, Milan); purchased 2021. by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
The Seduction of Drawing, Cortona Fine Art, Milan, 2021, no. 13.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: 31,5 x 8,5