Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)

A man reclining, asleep

Details
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
A man reclining, asleep
pen and brown ink, minor ink gall damage
6¼ x 8½ in. (158 x 216 mm.)
Provenance
Two unidentified marks, probably price codes (one L. 2925ter).

Lot Essay

The handling of the penwork, in particular the treatment of the back with pools of light and patterns of hatching moving in different directions, is close to a drawing of a standing figure looking to the left in a private collection, Paris.
Andrew Robison dates the drawing to the later 1760s

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