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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1929.251
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Head of a Monk
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
15th century
Culture
Flemish?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231505

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
23.8 x 20.1 cm (9 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.) Irregular

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Henry S. Bowers, Class of 1900
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
1929.251
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
Cut from larger panel, rest of paint surface around head lost. Panel fits poorly into frame.

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), p. 122, not repr.

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