A Caricature of a Man Holding His Hat Under His Left Arm, between 1674 and 1755

  • Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian, 1674-1755

Pen and dark brown ink on off-white laid paper

  • Sheet: 10 7/8 × 7 3/4 inches (27.6 × 19.7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR129.1

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 366.B [underscored] Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, lower right: D.i.R.

J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 298. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 110, no. 51.

Pier Leone Ghezzi, A Caricature of a Man Holding His Hat Under His Left Arm, between 1674 and 1755, pen and dark brown ink on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR129.1.