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A Young Man with a Staff

c. 1765

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper
Credit Line

Gift of Kate Ganz, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

overall: 15.9 x 10.5 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
Accession

1991.24.1

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1997

Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 62.

Bibliography

1991

Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.106.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: Guardi U

Wikidata ID

Q64572347

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