Collection (Untitled, Head of a Priest)

(Untitled, Head of a Priest)

Francesco Novelli, Artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Artist Pietro Antonio Novelli, Artist
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(Untitled, Head of a Priest)

18th century

Francesco Novelli (Artist) Italian, 1764-1836 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Artist) Italian, 1682-1754 Pietro Antonio Novelli (Artist) Italian, 1729-1804

Black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid paper

Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 11/16 inches (28.3 × 19.5 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, Julius H. Haass Fund

39.666.2

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Inscribed, upper right corner: 32

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(H. Bittner & Co., New York, New York, USA);
1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 307-312, no. A58.

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Francesco Novelli; Pietro Antonio Novelli; after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, (Untitled, Head of a Priest), 18th century, black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Julius H. Haass Fund, 39.666.2.

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