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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.41
People
Battista Franco, Italian (Venice (?) 1493 - 1566 Venice)
Title
Head of a Bearded Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295550

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid decorative mount
Dimensions
12 × 9.2 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: u.r., brown ink, stamped: L. 2949 and L.s. 2949 (Comte de la Croix?)
  • collector's mark: l.r. over the mark of Peter Lely, black ink, stamped: L. 2364 (Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792)
  • inscription: bottom center, brown ink: Ba Franco
  • inscription: on old mount, brown ink: Battista Franco fecit / - Venice - / 1498 - 1561 - / Studied under M. A. Buonarotti / -- / Formerly in the possession of / Sir joshua Reynolds PRA / -- W. Morley - / Sept. 1834 -
  • collector's mark: l.r. under the mark of Sir Joshua Reynolds, black ink, stamped: L. 2093 (Peter Lely)
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/8/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Comte de la Croix(?) (L. 2949, with his mark). Sir Peter Lely, London, England (L. 2093 with his mark). Joshua Reynolds, London, England (L. 2364 with his mark). William Morley, London, England ( L. 1826a; Morley's inscription is present on the old mount). Mrs Robert Frank, sold; [P. & D. Colnaghi, & Co. Ltd., London, England 1962], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.41
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 5, pp. 18-19, repr. pl. 5

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984

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