id: 112960
accession number: 1931.57
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.57
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A Portrait of the Artist's Son Giacomo, c. 1735. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754). Black chalk heightened with white chalk, with stumping; sheet: 40.4 x 31.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Margaret Huntington Smith McCarthy Fund, 1931.57
title: A Portrait of the Artist's Son Giacomo
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creation date: c. 1735
creation date earliest: 1682
creation date latest: 1754
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creditline: Margaret Huntington Smith McCarthy Fund
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culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century
technique: black chalk heightened with white chalk, with stumping
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Italian
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 40.4 x 31.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
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description: brown laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830
opening date: 1932-12-07T05:00:00
Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).
title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00
Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).
title: Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America
opening date: 1935-01-01T05:00:00
Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (January 1-31, 1935).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1937-05-28T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).
title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00
Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).
title: Drawings by Old Italian Masters
opening date: 1940-06-05T04:00:00
Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1941-03-04T05:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Ways of Drawing Faces
opening date: 1944-10-01T04:00:00
Ways of Drawing Faces. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945).
title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
title: Italian Prints and Drawings
opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00
Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968).
title: 18th Century Master Drawings
opening date: 1981-10-06T04:00:00
18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).
title: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition
opening date: 1983-11-20T05:00:00
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).', 'opening_date': '1970-12-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director\'s Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-03-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-01-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Oberlin, Ohio, Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Twenty-Four Eighteenth Century French and Italian Drawings," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 8 (Jan. 4-31, 1951), p. 54.', 'opening_date': '1931-01-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (from June 30, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-06-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).', 'opening_date': '1946-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944-Sep. 25, 1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-07-27T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Baltimore Museum of Art, Three Baroque Masters: Strozzi, Crespi, and Piazzetta (Apr. 28-June 4, 1944), no. 48.', 'opening_date': '1944-04-28T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting (Mar. 3-31, 1940), no. 85.', 'opening_date': '1931-03-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-06-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, Laces and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1936-12-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-05-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 10-Sep. 15, 1935).', 'opening_date': '1935-07-10T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings of the Period Shown with the Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest" (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1933-12-12T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA (June 21-Dec. 11, 1933).', 'opening_date': '1933-06-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA (Apr. 1, 1931-Nov. 12, 1932).', 'opening_date': '1931-04-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
[Harold W. Parsons] (departmental card); Italico Brass, Venice (departmental card)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Five Portrait Drawings by Piazetta." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (April 1931): 73-76.
page number: Mentioned: p. 74-75; Reproduced: p. 79
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137379
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gordon Bailey Washburn, and Agnes Mongan. Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America; January, 1935, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [F.W. Burow], 1935.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 63
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.57/1931.57_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.57/1931.57_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.57/1931.57_full.tif