Portrait of Gennaro de Scà Artist: Pier Leone Ghezzi (Italian, 1674–1755)

Medium

Pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 10 15/16 × 7 13/16 in. (27.8 × 19.9 cm)

Credit Line

Purchased with a gift from Frederick Goldstein, B.A. 1955, in honor of Suzanne Boorsch

Accession Number

2005.124.1

Geography
Culture
Period

18th century

Classification
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Bibliography
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 232, 397, pl. 220
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Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Inscriptions

Recto, in ink, LL corner: V.D. Gennaro de Scà [?] Maestro/ dell Cad. d. Figlioli dell. Duca/ d. Matalona fatto da me Cav./ Ghezzi li 8 Aprile 1748

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