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Pier Leone Ghezzi

Le Chevalier de La Motte, ca. 1725 - 1730

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Description

Maker

Title

Le Chevalier de La Motte

Year

ca. 1725 - 1730

Medium

Pen and ink and chalk on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

30 x 20 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in contemporary hand in brown ink on slip of paper attached to mount: "M. le Ch. deLamothe"; on verso in contemporary hand in brown ink: "M. le Ch. deLamothe"; numbered in brown ink at upper right hand corner of mount: "18".

Watermark: Crown with the letter P in a circle

Type

Credit

Gift of Janos Scholz

Object Number

52.128

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

A man wearing a wig and a military uniform holds a tricorn hat, raising his knobby right hand in greeting. His sloped forehead ends in a comically large pointed nose, its gaping, flared nostrils adding to the grotesque effect of his fleshy face. Pier Leone Ghezzi was a prolific caricaturist who drew thousands of “charged portraits” of the upper echelons of Rome’s cosmopolitan society. While the identity of this French military man is not known, his likeness fits a common formula in Ghezzi’s drawings, with figures shown full length, often with beak-like noses and protruding lips.

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