Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005093Sketches for an Altar with Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (recto); Two Sketches for an Altar (verso)
Provenance
Sold, C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, October 2-23, 1973, lot 121, to Adolphe Stein, Paris [F. Carlo Schmid of C. G. Boerner]; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 108, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art (verso).
Publications
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), nos. 1F11 and 1F12 (recto).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta / Italian, 1682-1754
- Date
- 1728/1754
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk and graphite (recto), and pen and brown ink with touches of black chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 × 19.2 cm (11 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Charles H. Worcester Sketch Fund
- Accession no.
- 1976.425
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