Portrait of a Gondolier

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1730

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian, 1682-1754

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Title: Portrait of a Gondolier
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.: 1720–1754
Medium: Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board
Dimensions: 38.8 × 29.9 cm (15 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1971.331
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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, CXII (May 1970), p. 301.
The Christian Science Monitor (June 2, 1972) (ill.).
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F8.
Rodolfo Pallucchini, L’Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D10 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, p. 25, cat. 11 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1979-1980, cat. 105, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “18th Century Venetian Drawings,” January 11-May 5, 1985.

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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