# A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man, in Rococo

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta drew this in about 1740, aged about 53. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was celebrated for his finished drawings of saints, portraits, and teste di carattere (character heads). Cleveland’s sheet belongs to the latter genre, which describes portraits embellished with props to suggest a character type or types.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1740
- Medium: black crayon (wetted and rubbed) heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 42.7 x 54.9 cm (16 13/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1938.387
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-battista-piazzetta), Italian, 1682–1754

2 works in the collection.

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