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.
A Portrait of Ferdinand Ludwig, Count von Oeynhausen-Schulenburg
Giovanni Battista Piazzettac. 1730
Accession Number
36173
Medium
Black chalk with stumping, and with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper (discolored to tan), laid down on cream wood pulp board
Dimensions
51 × 38.7 cm (20 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
chalk
Credit Line
Dorothy E. Williams Fund