A Seated Slave, Pietro Antonio Novelli, mid-18th–early 19th century

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A Seated Slave, mid-18th–early 19th century, Pen and black ink, gray wash, over black chalk, 18 1/8 x 12 3/16 in. (46 x 31 cm), Drawings, Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, Venice 1729–1804 Venice), A contemporary of Domenico Tiepolo, Novelli was a decorative painter and prolific draftsman. This drawing is a copy after one of the four bronze sculptures of slaves on the base of the monument to the Grand Duke Ferdinand I de’ Medici of Tuscany (Piazza Giuseppe Micheli, Livorno, Italy

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Size: 3680px × 5340px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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