The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 28, 2023

Head of a Young Man in Profile with a Gun over His Shoulder

c. 1730/40s

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

(Italian, 1682–1754)

Italy, 18th century

Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk

Support: Blue laid(?) paper, faded to light gray, laid down on light brown board

Sheet: 37.7 x 27.1 cm (14 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 43.4 x 33.3 cm (17 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.)

Gift of Jacob M. Heimann 1943.373

Location

not on view

Provenance
Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, New Jersey (Lugt 750a and 2066b; not stamped) (according to departmental card). Jacob M. Heimann, New York (departmental card)
Exhibition history

CMA, Venice As City and Theater (Feb. 27-Apr. 21, 1985).

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).

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

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Aug. 8, 1947- ).

CMA, How To Draw Faces (Sep. 25, 1944-Jan. 28, 1945).

CMA (Recent Accessions room, Aug. 15-Sep. 25, 1944).

[did not find a registrarial file for this one, Mar. 1996]-?

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

Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985).

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