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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.120
People
Antonio Mancini, Italian (Rome, Italy 1852 - 1930 Rome, Italy)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230360

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
63.2 x 49.9 cm (24 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
frame: 86 x 73.5 cm (33 7/8 x 28 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: A. Mancini

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Singer Sargent, London, sold [through his estate sale, Christie's, London, July 27, 1925, lot 299 as "A Man with Frizzy Hair"]; to [Scott and Fowles, New York], sold; to Esther Slater Kerrigan, sold [through her sale, Parke Bernet, January 8-10, 1942, lot 276c]; to [Scott and Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1942, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.120
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 299
  • 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), p. 117; repr. as no. 798
  • Adrienne Quarles van Ufford, Mesdag & Mancini, Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, 2020), p. 59, repr. as fig. 34

Exhibition History

  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

Verification Level

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