A reclining female figure gesturing to the right, another figure behind

Details

Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687-1767)
A reclining female figure gesturing to the right, another figure behind
red chalk, the right edge irregularly cut
127 x 184 mm.; in an album containing drawings by or attributed to Lazzarini, Lefevre, Mingardi, Bianchi and others, the Mingardi with an inscription by the Reliable Venetian Collector (L. 3005c), the album with the stamp of the collection of Graf Gianazzai, Udine (not in Lugt).

Provenance

An unidentified collector's framing lines and attribution 'Pittoni' (not in Lugt).
Graf Giannazzai, Udine.

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Lot Essay

One of several examples by Antonio Guardi with similar framing lines, and with an attribution in the same hand, is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, J. Bean and W. Griswold, 18th Century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 83.

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