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VENETIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Studies of gondoliers, a couple wearing masks and other figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, and gray wash, on two joined pieces of paper,
fragmentary watermark with letters ‘AC’
11æ x 35º in. (30 x 89.2 cm)
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 144.

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DOMENICO FEDELI, CALLED MAGGIOTTO (VENICE 1713-1794)
Head of a young girl seen in profile holding her dress in her left hand
with price code ‘Apfz.’ (verso)
black and white chalk, on blue-gray paper
14√ x 11¿ in. (38 x 29 cm)
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 12 January 1994, lot 35 (as Giovanni
Battista Piazzetta).

This beautiful drawing is the work of Domenico Maggiotto, one of the artists
active in the Venetian workshop of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754).
Piazzetta produced many large drawings similar to the present sheet
depicting either portraits of real people or generic heads (teste di carattere);
these drawings were sold as independent works of art and avidly collected.
Piazzetta’s pupils followed closely in his footsteps creating drawings so
similar in subject matter and technique that they often are mistaken as by
the master’s own hand. The present drawing can be compared with other
drawings by the artist such as the Head of a girl in profile in the Museo Correr
in Venice (inv. 1617; T. Pignatti, Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia,
Venice, 1996, V, no. 1134, ill.) or the beautiful Young woman fixing her hair
in the National Gallery in Washington (inv. 1997.57.4; A. Robison, Building a
Collection, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1997, no. 55).
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We are grateful to Andrew Robison for suggesting the attribution to
Maggiotto and the supporting comparisons.