LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and white chalk, stumping, on blue (faded) paper

Measurements:

19.96 in. (50.70 cm.) (height) by 15.04 in. (38.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscription 'Gio: Batta: Piazzetta.', watermark kneeling figure holding a cross in a shield

Literature:

G. Knox, Giambattista Piazzetta, 1682-1754, Oxford, 1992, pp. 31 nt 9, and 211, pl. 152.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13-14 December 1984, lot 66. with Jean-Luc Baroni, London (cat. 2010, no. 15), where acquired by the present owner.