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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Sheet of Sketches: Six Figures
    Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Sheet of Sketches: Six Figures, 1768/78. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004911

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    Sheet of Sketches: Six Figures

    by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

    Provenance

    Private collection, Paris, by 1938 [Parker 1938]. Caroline R. Hill [New York 1949 exh. cat.]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1949-at least 1954 [New York 1949 exh. cat.; Thomas 1954]. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Drawings Through Four Centuries," 1949, cat. 48. New York, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, "18th Century Italian Drawings," May 9-23, 1960, cat. 53; traveled to Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College, April 11-May 5, 1960. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 21, pl. VIb. 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. 19 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, p. 86, cat. 137, pl. 144, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985. 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. 68-69, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.

    Publications

    Kurt Cassirer, Roma II (1924), pl. XLIX (ill.). K. T. Parker, "Giovanni Battista Piranesi," Old Master Drawings XLVIII (March 1938), pp. 54-55. Hylton Thomas, The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (London, 1954), no. 73. "Recent Accensions," The Art Quarterly XXII (1959), p. 192. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1G6.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Battista Piranesi / Italian, 1720-1778
    Date
    1768/78
    Medium
    Pen and black and gray ink on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    23.1 × 36.5 cm (9 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
    Accession no.
    1959.3R

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