A Portrait of Ferdinand Ludwig, Count von Oeynhausen-Schulenburg

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1730

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian, 1682-1754

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Title: A Portrait of Ferdinand Ludwig, Count von Oeynhausen-Schulenburg
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1720–1731
Medium: Black chalk with stumping, and with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper (discolored to tan), laid down on cream wood pulp board
Dimensions: 51 × 38.7 cm (20 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Dorothy E. Williams Fund
Reference Number: 1971.327
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Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, p. 9.
Alice Binion, “From Schulenburg’s Gallery and Records,” The Burlington Magazine, 112 (May 1970), p. 301
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F3.
Rodolfo Pallucchini, L’Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D4 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 16-17, cat. 5 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, cat. 100, 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. 45.
Washington, D.C, The National Gallery of Art, “A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books: Piazzetta,” November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984, cat. 35.

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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