Portrait of Sophie Juliane 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 Sophie Juliane von der Schulenburg

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

c. 1531

Accession Number

36176

Medium

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

Dimensions

51.2 × 38.8 cm (20 3/16 × 15 5/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Dorothy E. Williams Fund