Sketches for an Altar with Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (recto); Two Sketches for an Altar (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1728/1754

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian, 1682-1754

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Title: Sketches for an Altar with Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (recto); Two Sketches for an Altar (verso)
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.: Artist's working dates 1728–1754
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk and graphite (recto), and pen and brown ink with touches of black chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 27.8 × 19.2 cm (11 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. Worcester Sketch Fund
Reference Number: 1976.425
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Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), nos. 1F11 and 1F12 (recto).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, cat. 108, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art (verso).

Sold, C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, October 2-23, 1973, lot 121, to Adolphe Stein, Paris [F. Carlo Schmid of C. G. Boerner]; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.

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