(Untitled, Male Torso), 18th century

  • Francesco Novelli, Italian, 1764-1836
  • Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1729-1804
  • Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754

Black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid paper

  • Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 11/16 inches (28.3 × 19.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Julius H. Haass Fund

39.666.7

Inscribed, upper right corner: 37

(H. Bittner & Co., New York, New York, USA)

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 307-312, no. A58.

Francesco Novelli; Pietro Antonio Novelli; after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, (Untitled, Male Torso), 18th century, black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Julius H. Haass Fund, 39.666.7.