id: 117767 accession number: 1938.388 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.388 updated: 2025-06-17 11:05:49.065000 A Flying Angel (recto); Studies of Hands Playing Instruments (verso), 1723–27. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754). Black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk; sheet: 56.3 x 42.6 cm (22 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1938.388 title: A Flying Angel (recto); Studies of Hands Playing Instruments (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1723–27 creation date earliest: 1723 creation date latest: 1727 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century technique: black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 56.3 x 42.6 cm (22 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: 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: 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: Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy opening date: 1951-01-01T05:00:00 Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (January 1-31, 1951). 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: 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: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). 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: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- 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 “Cleveland: A Museum’s New Acquisitions.” The Art News 38, no. 40 (1940). page number: Mentioned: p. 13 url: Millikan, William M. “Two Drawings by Piazzetta.” Burlington Magazine 76, no. 444 (1940). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 88-89, pl. C 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: p. 109 url: Fogg Museum of Art. Venice in the Eighteenth Century (May 7- June 10, 1948). Cambridge: Harvard University, 1948. page number: Mentioned: no. 28 url: “Exhibition of Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy.” Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 8, no. 2 (1951). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 54, no. 12 url: Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 56; Reproduced: p. 54, fig. 63 url: Jones, Leslie. “The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.” Doctoral diss., New York University, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 14, fig. 35 url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo and Adriano Mariuz. L’opera completa del Piazzetta. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 84 no. 37a, p. 85 url: Knox, George, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books. 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 68, cat. no. 15, Reproduced: p. 69 url: Puglisi, Catherine R. “Piazzetta’s Glory of Saint Dominic.” Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell’Arte 41 (1987). page number: Mentioned: p. 210, p. 15 n. 5 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: p. 166, 480, no. 87. url: Sciré, Giovanna Nepi, et al. Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Milan: Electa, 1995. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 199, no. 72 url: Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: p. 91, fig. 3 url: Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 91 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: P. 4, 60-61, 86; Reproduced: P. 61, cat. no. 20 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.388/1938.388_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.388/1938.388_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.388/1938.388_full.tif