Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Ravà 1681-1754 Venice)

Saint Roch (recto and verso)

Details

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Ravà 1681-1754 Venice)
Saint Roch (recto and verso)
with number '3'
graphite
6 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (16.1 x 13 cm.)

Provenance

The Reliable Venetian Hand (Lugt 3005c-d), with his attribution 'Giambatista Piazzetta Venezº'.
Hugh N. Squire, London, by 1966.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1975, lot 74.
Massimo Brooks, London.

Literature

G. Knox, in Piazzetta, A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books, exh. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1983, pp. 23, 24, figs. 5, 35.

Exhibited

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni di una collezione Veneziana del Settecento, 1966, no. 70.

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Lot Essay

Another study of Saint Roch, also drawn on the recto and verso, but executed in pen and brown ink over black chalk, was formerly in the Perman collection (exh. cat., Venice, 1966, op. cit., no. 71). Both drawings bear a characteristic inscription by a Venetian 18th Century collector, today called the Reliable Venetian Hand, formerly identified as Anton Maria Zanetti and known for the accuracy of his attributions. No painting by Piazzetta of this subject is known.

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