About This Artwork

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian, 1682-1754

Giacomo Feeding a Dog, 1738/39

Black chalk with stumping, with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board
535 x 422 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1971.326

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 20-21, cat. 7 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 102, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.

Venice, Fondazione Giogio Cini, "G. B. Piazzetta Disegni, Incisioni, Libri, Manoscritti," 1983, cat. 44.

Washington, D.C, The National Gallery of Art, "A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books: Piazzetta," November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984, cat. 33.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 46-47, cat. 13 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

Landesmuseums, Hannover, "Venedigs Ruhm im Norden," December 3, 1991-February 2, 1992, cat. 128D; also traveled to Ehrenhof, the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, February 16-April 26, 1992.

Publication History

Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, p. 9.

Antonio Morassi, "Settecento Inedito," Arte Veneta, VI (1952), pp. 85-91.

Alice Binion, "From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records," The Burlington Magazine, CXII (May 1970), p. 301.

The Christian Science Monitor (June 2, 1972), p. 8.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F5.

Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D6 (ill.).

James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 207 (ill.).

Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 127 (ill.).

Ownership History

Sold by the artist to Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (died 1747), Venice [invoice]; by descent, Schulenburg family, Germany and Switzerland, to around 1971 [a letter from the Paul Drey Gallery dated May 24, 1971 in curatorial file]; sold to the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by 1971 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.