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Academic Study of a Male Nude Posed Against a Tree

(Italian (Venetian), 1682–1754)
1715–20
Medium/TechniqueBlack and white chalk on gray-blue paper
DimensionsSight: 54 x 36.2 cm (21 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
Framed: 77.5 x 57.5 cm (30 1/2 x 22 5/8 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number1999.6
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsInscribed in brown ink. l.r. by another hand: "Piazzetta"
ProvenancePrivate collection, England; Christie, Mason and Woods, Ltd. London, 13 December, 1984, lot 67; John Morton Morris & Co., London; Jules Kirsch, New York; Ars Libri, Boston; from whom purchased by MFA, March 24,1999.
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