Giacomo Feeding a Dog

Provenance

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.

Giacomo Feeding a Dog

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1738/39

Accession Number

36171

Medium

Black chalk with stumping, with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board

Dimensions

53.5 × 42.2 cm (21 1/8 × 16 5/8 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Helen Regenstein Collection