Piazzetta, Studi di pittura, Venice, 1760, half calf

Giambattista Piazzetta

Studi di pittura già dissegnati di Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1760

oblong folio (285 x 421mm.), engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved device on title-page, engraved initials, head- and tailpieces, list of subscribers, 24 engraved plates, each in two states, contemporary calf-backed boards, occasional light soiling

FIRST EDITION. The Venetian painter Piazzetta (1682-1754) executed commissions for various Venetian and foreign nobles, many of whom are named in the list of subscribers. He produced drawings for more than sixty books, the most famous of which is Albrizzi's 1745 Gerusalemme Liberata. The plates here were produced after Piazzetta's death by his pupils Marco Pitteri and Francesco Bartolozzi, who provided a copy of each of his drawings in their own distinctive style.

PROVENANCE

Marton, bookplate

LITERATURE

Cicognara 345