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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR60.106
People
Attributed to Wilhelm Leibl, German (Cologne, Germany 1844 - 1900 Würzburg, Germany)
Title
Head of a Man
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1879
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222827

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on composite board
Dimensions
sight: 24 x 17.6 cm (9 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r., oil, handwritten: W. Leibl / 1879 [This signature is unlikely to be of Leibl's hand.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Unknown dealer, New York], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
BR60.106
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Exhibition History

  • 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum's Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1980 - 08/31/1980
  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
  • The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005

Verification Level

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