Circle of CORRADO GIAQUINTO (1690-1765)

Details
Circle of CORRADO GIAQUINTO (1690-1765)

The Seven Liberal Arts

oil on canvas--a bozzetto
12 x 13 3/8in. (30.5 x 34cm.)
Provenance
George Hoentschel, Paris
J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906, by whom given to the museum
Literature
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, 1972, p. 85, as Corrado Giaquinto
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, I, p. 72; II, p. 106, illustrated, as Corrado Giaquinto

Lot Essay

An old inventory number on the stretcher read '293'