Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011625Head of a Young Man in Profile with a Gun over His Shoulder
by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Also known as: Head of a Young Man with a Gun over His Shoulder
Provenance
Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, New Jersey (Lugt 750a and 2066b; not stamped) (according to departmental card). Jacob M. Heimann, New York (departmental card)
Exhibition history
Ways of Drawing Faces. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945). Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754)
- Date
- c. 1730/40s
- Medium
- black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.7 x 27.1 cm (14 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 43.4 x 33.3 cm (17 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jacob M. Heimann
- Accession no.
- 1943.373
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