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Head of a Young Boy in Profile to the Right

Date

ca. 1715-1718

Creator

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta's paintings of religious subjects show him to be one of the last distinctive talents of Venetian Baroque art. The large, appealing, and important body of drawings he produced establishes his position as one fo the most recognizable and sought-after of old master draftsmen. Many of them are independent finished works done for their own sake.The Reilly Head of A Young Boy relates to a painting, The Young Peasant, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As a study for a painting and an early work by the artist (ca. 1715*1718), this sheet can be singled out as a most significant drawing. George Knox has identified two other drawings of the same, young, male model which are today in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum. Even though these sheets are early drawings, they clearly evidence Piazzetta's remarkably naturalistic style and his striking facility in the use of black and while chalks.

from Spiro, Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2001)

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Metadata

Creator
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682 - 1754)
Date
ca. 1715-1718
Classification
Drawings
Related Location
Europe, Italy
Medium
Black chalk with touches of white on gray-brown paper backed to a sheet on thin mulberry paper
Dimensions
15 1/8 x 10 3/8 in. (38.4 x 26.49 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of John D. Reilly, ND '63, '64
Copyright Status
Public domain

Metadata

Accession Number
2000.074.026
Campus Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
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