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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.319
People
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian (Pietrarossa 1682 - 1754 Venice)
Title
Head of a Youth
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298589

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
36.2 × 27.7 cm (14 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: VP (Mongan-Sachs W. 34)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.319
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, "Disegni sconosciuti del Piazzetta", Critica d'arte (1938), XVI-XVIII, pp. 152-154, pp. 152-154
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 340, p. 169; vol. 2, repr. fig. 165
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 34, pp. 80-81, and pp. 9-10, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 63, n.p., and pp. 69 and 71, repr. (color)
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 6, p. 26
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")

Exhibition History

  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998

Verification Level

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