
Giacomo Feeding a Dog
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · 1738/39
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (died 1747), Venice [invoice]; by descent, Schulenburg family, Germany and Switzerland, to around 1971 [a letter from the Paul Drey Gallery dated May 24, 1971 in curatorial file]; sold to the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by 1971 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 20-21, cat. 7 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 102, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.
- Venice, Fondazione Giogio Cini, "G. B. Piazzetta Disegni, Incisioni, Libri, Manoscritti," 1983, cat. 44.
- Washington, D.C, The National Gallery of Art, "A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books: Piazzetta," November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984, cat. 33.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 46-47, cat. 13 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- Landesmuseums, Hannover, "Venedigs Ruhm im Norden," December 3, 1991-February 2, 1992, cat. 128D; also traveled to Ehrenhof, the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, February 16-April 26, 1992.
Literature
Published references
- Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, p. 9.
- Antonio Morassi, "Settecento Inedito," Arte Veneta, VI (1952), pp. 85-91.
- Alice Binion, "From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records," The Burlington Magazine, CXII (May 1970), p. 301.
- The Christian Science Monitor (June 2, 1972), p. 8.
- Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F5.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D6 (ill.).
- James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 207 (ill.).
- Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 127 (ill.).
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