Pietro Longhi
Study of a Seated Woman
1702-85291 x 211 mm
Black chalk stumped, highlighted with white chalk, on light brown paper
Inscribed, "piu longa" in black chalk
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Lepow, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc., David M. Tobey, Stephen A. Geiger, Susan H. Seidel, and Alice F. Steiner Gifts and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1994.
Provenance
Private collection, France
sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris March 30, 1989, lot 168
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox (London) sold to MMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994
Other works by Pietro Longhi
Interior Scene - Masked Party
18th–19th century
18th–19th century
A Dignitary Holding a Document
c. 1722-42
c. 1722-42
The Simulated Faint
c. 1745
c. 1745
Portrait of a Lady
The Tickle