Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)

A man reclining, asleep

细节

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
A man reclining, asleep
pen and brown ink, minor ink gall damage
6¼ x 8½ in. (158 x 216 mm.)

来源

Two unidentified marks, probably price codes (one L. 2925ter).

拍品专文

The handling of the penwork, in particular the treatment of the back with pools of light and patterns of hatching moving in different directions, is close to a drawing of a standing figure looking to the left in a private collection, Paris.
Andrew Robison dates the drawing to the later 1760s