Portrait of Marshal von der Schulenburg

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.

Portrait of Marshal von der Schulenburg

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

c. 1735

Accession Number

36169

Medium

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

Dimensions

50.6 × 38.5 cm (19 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation