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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.309
People
Lorenzo Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1736 - 1776 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Study of a Man's Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298422

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk with traces of graphite on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 33.2 x 21.7 cm (13 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. J. J. Wyle, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. J. J. Wyle in Memory of Felix Warburg
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.309
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonne of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, England, 1980), no. L. 7
  • Christel Thiem, Ein Zeichnungsalbum der Tiepolo in Würzburg Erkenntnisse zur Praxis und Funktion des Portratzeichnens im Tiepolo-Studio, Hirmer (Munich, Germany, 1996), under no. 34
  • Tiepolo in Würzburg: Der Himmel auf Erden, exh. cat., Prestel (Munich, Germany and New York, NY, 1996), p. 163

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