id: 117766 accession number: 1938.387 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.387 updated: 2023-12-01 22:19:10.355000 A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man, c. 1740. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754). Black crayon (wetted and rubbed) heightened with white chalk ; sheet: 42.7 x 54.9 cm (16 13/16 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.387 title: A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1740 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1745 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century technique: black crayon (wetted and rubbed) heightened with white chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 42.7 x 54.9 cm (16 13/16 x 21 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: blue laid paper (faded to green-gray) watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Italian Drawings, 1330-1780 opening date: 1941-12-01T05:00:00 Italian Drawings, 1330-1780. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (December 1-20, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: Life in Eighteenth Century Venice opening date: 1948-04-20T05:00:00 Life in Eighteenth Century Venice. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (April 20-June 15, 1948). title: Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century opening date: 1952-09-30T05:00:00 Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century. Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (September 30-November 2, 1952). title: Mozart and the Age of Reason opening date: 1956-01-15T05:00:00 Mozart and the Age of Reason. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 15-February 29, 1956). 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 and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Aspects of Drawing opening date: 1961-01-10T05:00:00 Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). 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-February 25, 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). title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century opening date: 1994-09-15T04:00:00 The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 15-December 14, 1994); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (January 29-April 23, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of eighteenth-century Italian Painting held in Venice, 1929 (no. 47). --- PROVENANCE (Italico Brass [1870-1943], Venice, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 1938.) date: ?-1938 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1938- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shaw, James Byam. “Venice: Piazzetta at S. Giorgio Maggiore.” The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 969 (December 1983). page number: Mentioned: p. 786 n.6 url: Rava, Aldo. G.B. Piazzetta. Firenze: Fratelli Alinari, 1921. page number: Mentioned: p. 71 url: Fiocco, Giuseppe. “La Peinture à l’Exposition du XVIIIe Siècle à Venise.” La Renaissance 12, no. 12 (December 1929). page number: Reproduced: p. 565 url: Ojetti, Ugo et al. Il Settecento Italiano. Milan: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1932. page number: Reproduced: fig. 244 url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. L’Arte di Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Bologna: Giuseppe Maylender Editore, 1934. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 58, 100, fig. 74 url: “Cleveland: A Museum’s New Acquisitions.” The Art News 38, no. 40 (1940): 13-14. page number: Mentioned: p. 13 url: Francis, Henry S. "Two Drawings by Piazzetta." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 27, no. 7 (1940): 108-109. page number: Mentioned: pp. 108-109 url: Smith College, and Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy. Italian Drawing, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art. Northampton, MA: Press-work by A. Wilson, 1941. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 51 url: Goering, Max. “Giovanni Battista Piazzetta als Zeichner.” Pantheon 14, no. 11 (November 1941): 259-263. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 261-263 url: Mongan, Agnes. “Italian Drawings 1330-1780: an Exhibition at the Smith College Museum of Art.” The Art Bulletin 24, no. 1 (March 1942): 92-94. page number: Mentioned: p. 93 url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Giovanni Battista PIazzetta, con cinquantasei tavole. Rome: Tumminelli, 1943. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 22, pl. 53 url: Benesch, Otto. Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York: H. Bittner and Company, 1947. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 29, no. 11 url: Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin Publishers, 1947. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: 172-73, no. 86 url: Fogg Museum of Art. Venice in the Eighteenth Century (May 7- June 10, 1948). Cambridge: Harvard University, 1948. page number: Mentioned: no. 27 url: Milliken, William M. “L’arte Italiana nel Museo di Cleveland.” Le Vie del Mondo 12, no. 9 (September 1950): 897-908. page number: Reproduced: p. 908 url: The Detroit Institute of Arts, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, and E.P. Richardson. Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 44, fig. 53 url: Morassi, Antonio. “Una Mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit.” Arte Veneta: Rivista Trimestrale di Storia dell’Arte 25 (1953). page number: Mentioned: p. 52. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 572 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n107 Milliken, William M. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 46 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 143 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n167 Alsop, Joseph. “Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Art in America 24, no.3 (May-June 1966). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 23, 28. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 143 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n167 Precerutti-Garberi, Mercedes. Giambattista Piazzetta e l’accademia: disegni. Milan: Castello Sforzesco, 1971. page number: Mentioned: p. 15, 23 under nos. 1 and 2, 28 under no. 5 url: Bean, Jacob and Felice Stampfle. Drawings from New York Collections III: The Eighteenth Century in Italy. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. page number: Mentioned: p. 34 under no. 40 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 142 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n162 Pallucchini, Rodolfo and Adriano Mariuz. L’opera completa del Piazzetta. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 131, 133, no.d12 url: Knox, George, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 10, 30, 37, 126, 134, cat. no. 51, Reproduced: p. 134 url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo et al. Giambattista Piazzetta: Il suo tempo, la sua scuola. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 134, under no. 50 url: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Alessandro Bettagno, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. G.B. Piazzetta: disegni, incisioni, libri, manoscritti. Vicenza: Pozza, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 25, under no. 16, p. 30, under no. 37 url: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Uwe Westfehling. Meisterzeichnungen von Leonardo bis zu Rodin. Cologne: Museen der Stadt Köln, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 110 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1991. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art, John Russell, and Evan H. Turner. Masterpieces from East and West. New York: Rizzoli, 1992. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 126. url: Martineau, Jane, and Andrew Robison. The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no 65, p. 145, 147, 474 url: Alpers, Svetlana. “Post-Genius Venice.” Art in America, March 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 66. url: National Gallery of Art. 1995 Annual Report. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 19 url: Romanelli, Giandomenico and Filippo Pedrocco. Lorenzo Tiepolo e il suo tempo. (Milan: Electa, 1997). page number: Reproduced: p. 33 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 21, p. 4, pp. 62-62, p. 286 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Annual Report 2000, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 82. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.387/1938.387_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.387/1938.387_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.387/1938.387_full.tif