Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754)

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754)

A reclining female Nude in a Landscape

signed 'Gio Batta Piazzetta'; red and white chalk, on light brown paper, the corners cut
417 x 502mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 January 1988, lot 134, illustrated in colour ($50,600)

Exhibited

Washington, National Gallery of Art, Piazzetta, a Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books, 1983-4, no. 3, illustrated

Lot Essay

Professor George Knox compared the present sheet to a study of a Faun, signed in the same way, in an English private collection, G. Knox, Piazzetta, a Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books, Washington, 1983, no. 2, illustrated

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