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Portrait of a Young Boy
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · c. 1735
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, p. 22, cat. 8 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 104, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
Literature
Published references
- Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. E. Mgr. Le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg, p. 9.
- Alice Binion, "From Schulenburg's Gallery and Records," The Burlington Magazine, 112 (May 1970), p. 301
- Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F7.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'Opera Completa del Piazzetta (Milan, 1982), no. D7 (ill.).
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