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    Portrait of a Young Boy
    Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Portrait of a Young Boy, c. 1735. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002521

    Portrait of a Young Boy

    by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    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.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, p. 22, cat. 8 (ill.), by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 104, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.

    Publications

    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. 1F7. Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D7 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Battista Piazzetta / Italian, 1682-1754
    Date
    c. 1735
    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
    38.3 × 30.5 cm (15 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
    Accession no.
    1971.330

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