Sheet of Sketches: Standing Man with Raised Arm, Cherubim

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi / Italian, 1720-1778
Date: 1768/78
Medium: Pen and black ink, and charcoal, with traces of black chalk, 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.: 1959.3V

Palatial Courtyard with a Fountain
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
c. 1750 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00002292
Sheet of Sketches: Six Figures
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1768/78 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00004911
Sacrificial Offering in a Temple
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
after 1750 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011589
Two Men Holding Long Staffs (recto); Proof impression of part of an etching, and scribbles in the artist's hand (verso)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720–78 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020418

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.