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Jan 10, 2013

A Portrait of the Artist's Son Giacomo

c. 1735

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

(Italian, 1682–1754)

Italy, Venice, 18th century

Black chalk heightened with white chalk, with stumping

Support: Brown laid paper

Sheet: 40.4 x 31.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.)

Margaret Huntington Smith McCarthy Fund 1931.57

Location

not on view

Provenance

[Harold W. Parsons] (departmental card); Italico Brass, Venice (departmental card)

Citations

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gordon Bailey Washburn, and Agnes Mongan. Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America; January, 1935, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [F.W. Burow], 1935. Reproduced: cat. no. 63

Exhibition history

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).

CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).

Oberlin, Ohio, Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Twenty-Four Eighteenth Century French and Italian Drawings," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 8 (Jan. 4-31, 1951), p. 54.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (from June 30, 1950).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944-Sep. 25, 1944).

Baltimore Museum of Art, Three Baroque Masters: Strozzi, Crespi, and Piazzetta (Apr. 28-June 4, 1944), no. 48.

Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting (Mar. 3-31, 1940), no. 85.

CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).

CMA, Laces and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).

CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 10-Sep. 15, 1935).

CMA, "Drawings of the Period Shown with the Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest" (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).

CMA (June 21-Dec. 11, 1933).

CMA (Apr. 1, 1931-Nov. 12, 1932).

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).

Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).

Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Ways of Drawing Faces. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984).

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