Study of a Male Nude

ca. 1715

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Italian, 1682-1754

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About the Artwork

Title Study of a Male Nude

Artwork Date ca. 1715

Artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Life Dates 1682-1754

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue antique laid paper with fibrous inclusions

Dimensions Sheet: 23 1/16 × 17 1/16 inches (58.6 × 43.3 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Henry Tracy Kneeland in memory of his sister, Helen Kneeland Kaufman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 55.283

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right center: Ashmolean | TS

Marks Watermark: [trefoil and additional indecipherable elements]

Provenance

D. R. Nott (London, England).
P. & D. Colnaghi (London, England).
Charles Cunningham (Hartford, Connecticut, USA).
Henry Tracy Kneeland (Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA);
1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art in Italy. Exh. cat., Miami Art Center. Miami, 1969, p. 17, no. 33.

Harris, John. A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture, and Landscape Gardening 1500-1900 in American Collections. Upper Saddle River, 1971 p. 158 (pl. 114).

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 124-125, no. 60.

Knox, George. Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 1, p. 43 (ill.

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Study of a Male Nude, ca. 1715, black chalk, heightened with white, on blue antique laid paper with fibrous inclusions. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry Tracy Kneeland in memory of his sister, Helen Kneeland Kaufman, 55.283.

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