A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.

  • Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1754.
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1700-1799
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26936i
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A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Ven<eti>is [Venice] : Wagner recognovit et vend ... C.P.E.S.

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 51.7 x 34 cm

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Dorme il marito, ed al furtivo amante: Taci, dice la moglie, e sta in disparte; Ma guarda, e cogli il fortunato istante, Che s'uniscono in ciel Venere, e Marte. Gio. Batta Piazzetta pinxit, in ædibus Bartholomaæi Vitturi, Patr<iciani> Ven<eti> Ant. Capellan scul.

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Adriano Mariuz, L'opera completa del Piazzetta, Milan 1982, no. 98b, p. 98

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Wellcome Collection 26936i

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After a lost painting by Piazzetta--Mariuz, loc. cit.

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