1940.312: Study of a Man's Head

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.312

People

Lorenzo Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1736 - 1776 Madrid, Spain)

Title

Study of a Man's Head

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1753

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298429

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk with traces of graphite on blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 32.7 x 20.4 cm (12 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Count Gregori Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Rome.
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

1940.312

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 10
• Christel Thiem, Ein Zeichnungsalbum der Tiepolo in Würzburg Erkenntnisse zur Praxis und Funktion des Portratzeichnens im Tiepolo-Studio, Hirmer (Munich, Germany, 1996), under no. 32
• Tiepolo in Würzburg: Der Himmel auf Erden, exh. cat., Prestel (Munich, Germany and New York, NY, 1996), pp. 163 and 166

Exhibition History

• Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970

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