Saint Paul

Prints and Drawings

c. 1742

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian, 1682-1754

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Title: Saint Paul
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1742–1754
Medium: Black chalk with stumping, and touches of black crayon, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 39.7 × 32.4 cm (15 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Margaret Day Blake
Reference Number: 1969.269
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Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1G1.

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. 13 (ill.).

Jean-François Gigoux (died 1894), Paris [Lugt 1164]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 20-23, 1882, lot 131. Antonio Barboza (died 1889), Paris [Lugt 77]. Eugène Rodrigues (died 1928?), Paris [Lugt 897]. Sold by Schaeffer Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1969.

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