Portrait of Marshal von der Schulenburg

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1735

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian, 1682-1754

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Title: Portrait of Marshal von der Schulenburg
Origin: Italy
Date: 1731–1735
Medium: Black chalk and charcoal with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on wood pulp board
Dimensions: 506 × 385 mm
Credit Line: Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1971.325

Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, p. 9.
Antonio Morassi, “Settecento Inedito,” Arte Veneta, 6 (1952), pp. 85-91, no. 82 (ill.).
Antonio Morassi, “I Disegni del Piazzetta nella Galleria Schulenburg.”
Rodolfo Pallucchini, Piazzetta (Milan, 1956), no. 147 (ill.).
Alice Binion, “From Schulenburg’s Gallery and Records,” The Burlington Magazine, 112 (May 1970), p. 301
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1971), p. 31.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 86 (February 1973), p. 129, no. 458 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F2.
Rodolfo Pallucchini, L’Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D3 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 5.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 14-15, cat. 4 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 26.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, cat. 99, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..
Venice, Fondazione Giogio Cini, “G. B. Piazzetta. Disegni, Incisioni, Libri, Manoscritti,” 1983, cat. 47.
Washington, D.C, The National Gallery of Art, “A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books: Piazzetta,” November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984, cat. 37.
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. 44-45, cat. 12 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.
Hannover, Landesmuseums, “Venedigs Ruhm im Norden,” December 3, 1991-February 2, 1992, cat. 130D; also traveled to Ehrenhof, the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, February 16-April 26, 1992.

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.

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