1965.407: Head of a Boy

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.407

People

Copy after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian (Pietrarossa 1682 - 1754 Venice)

Title

Head of a Boy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296480

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on brown antique laid paper

Dimensions

39.4 × 30.3 cm (15 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Inscribed, graphite, lower right: No 1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Frederick Keppel, New York] sold; to Paul J. Sachs (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.407

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 342, fig. 167
• Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), p. 243, fig. 5.14

Exhibition History

• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947

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