Sketches for an Altar with Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (recto); Two Sketches for an Altar (verso)

Provenance

Sold, C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, October 2-23, 1973, lot 121, to Adolphe Stein, Paris [F. Carlo Schmid of C. G. Boerner]; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.

Sketches for an Altar with Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (recto); Two Sketches for an Altar (verso)

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1728/1754

Accession Number

113848

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk and graphite (recto), and pen and brown ink with touches of black chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

27.8 × 19.2 cm (11 × 7 9/16 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Charles H. Worcester Sketch Fund