School of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Laid down on japan paper. Two vertical lines running down the center of the sheet. Tip of lower right corner is missing. Several nicks in the sheet at the left margin. Some light brown staining around the margins. The paper, which has faded, was most probably blue in color, this is visible at the lower margin. Medium remains fresh and overall image strong.
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The present drawing, executed by an artist in his circle, is a copy after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta's Two Girls with a Birdcage and a Youth with a Staff, now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.¹ 

1.  Inv. 01252;  A.F. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings at Windsor Castle, London 1957, p. 29, no. 33, reproduced fig. 17