Study of a Man's Head | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1940.311
People: Copy after Lorenzo Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1736 - 1776 Madrid, Spain)
Previously attributed to 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/298423

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Red chalk on green prepared antique laid (?) paper
Dimensions: actual: 32.3 x 21.9 cm (12 11/16 x 8 5/8 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: 1940.311
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. 9
Christel Thiem, Ein Zeichnungsalbum der Tiepolo in Würzburg Erkenntnisse zur Praxis und Funktion des Portratzeichnens im Tiepolo-Studio, Hirmer (Munich, Germany, 1996), pp. 28-29
Tiepolo in Würzburg: Der Himmel auf Erden, exh. cat., Prestel (Munich, Germany and New York, NY, 1996), p. 163

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