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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

M. l'abbé Playing the Cello

Pier Leone Ghezzi
1674-1755

M. l'abbé Playing the Cello

9 15/16 x 7 3/4 inches (251 x 196mm.)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
1988.59

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower center of mount, in pen and brown ink, "M. L'abbe"; on verso, in pen and brown ink, "il virtuoso del Sigr De Bacqueville Roma 12 Marzo 1724".
Associated names
Goddard, Edward, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 19, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department