Inscribed, upper right corner: 37
(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
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Details
(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.