Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005740A Young Boy Wearing a Plumed Hat, and a Young Girl
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper edge, in pen and brown ink: "piazzetta"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "E361XXX"
Provenance
P. and D. Colnaghi and Company, London; sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 28, 1973, lot 50. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 21, 1978, lot 42, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime: Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 22. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 62-63, cat. 35 (ill.).
Publications
Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby/Parke-Bernet, 1972–73 (Viking, 1973), p. 49 (ill.).
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
- 1735/40
- Medium
- Charcoal with stumping, with black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, tipped on to beige Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 40.4 × 30.4 cm (15 15/16 × 12 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.111
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