Sheet of Sketches: Six Figures

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Prints and Drawings

1768/78

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Title: Sheet of Sketches: Six Figures
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1758–1778
Medium: Pen and black and gray ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 23.1 × 36.5 cm (9 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
Reference Number: 1959.3R
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Kurt Cassirer, Roma II (1924), pl. XLIX (ill.).
K. T. Parker, “Giovanni Battista Piranesi,” Old Master Drawings XLVIII (March 1938), pp. 54-55.
Hylton Thomas, The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (London, 1954), no. 73.
“Recent Accensions,” The Art Quarterly XXII (1959), p. 192.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1G6.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Drawings Through Four Centuries,” 1949, cat. 48.
New York, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, “18th Century Italian Drawings,” May 9-23, 1960, cat. 53; traveled to Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College, April 11-May 5, 1960.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 21, pl. VIb.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 19 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, p. 86, cat. 137, pl. 144, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..
The Art Institute of Chicago, “18th Century Venetian Drawings,” January 11-May 5, 1985.
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. 68-69, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.

Private collection, Paris, by 1938 [Parker 1938]. Caroline R. Hill [New York 1949 exh. cat.]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1949-at least 1954 [New York 1949 exh. cat.; Thomas 1954]. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.

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