Plate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Plate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Giuliano Giampiccoli

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate XLIX from "Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta," Venice, 1760

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista PiazzettaPlate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista PiazzettaPlate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista PiazzettaPlate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista PiazzettaPlate XLIX: Pastoral scene with peasants napping, one resting on a woman under a tree, a soldier approaches at right; from 'Studi di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

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