A Young Boy Wearing a Plumed Hat, and a Young Girl

Provenance

P. and D. Colnaghi and Company, London; sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 28, 1973, lot 50. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 21, 1978, lot 42, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

A Young Boy Wearing a Plumed Hat, and a Young Girl

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

1735/40

Accession Number

149034

Medium

Charcoal with stumping, with black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, tipped on to beige Japanese paper

Dimensions

40.4 × 30.4 cm (15 15/16 × 12 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection