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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.222
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
The Head of a Monk
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296623

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metalpoint and black chalk on white prepared paper, partial framing line in black chalk
Dimensions
7.5 x 6.2 cm (2 15/16 x 2 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: 1823 / Barthel de [illegible] / um 1619 - 16.. [illegible] Firenzi [?].
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: C... [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 1136
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 1823
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, sold or gift; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), by 1920, 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
1965.222
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), vol. 1, cat. no. 458, p. 237; vol. 2 repr. fig. 232 as Flemish (?) XV century
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 1, p. 1 (as Flemish XV Century)
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 207
  • J. L. Shrader, The waning Middle Ages: an exhibition of French and Netherlandish Art from1350 to 1500, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Waning of the Middle Ages by John Huizinga, exh. cat., University of Kansas Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS, 1969), pp. 41-42, cat. no. 36, repr. as plate XLVI
  • James Sperber, "Technical Examination of Eight Metalpoint Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1983), Unpublished, passim

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • The Waning Middle Ages, University of Kansas Museum of Art, 11/01/1969 - 12/01/1969

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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