DETAILS
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- black chalk heightened with white chalk, with stumping
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Italy, 18th century
- Credit line
- Gift of Jacob M. Heimann
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THE ARTIST
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, a Venetian Rococo painter, masterfully captured mysterious poetry and intense color in his religious subjects and genre scenes.
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