1932.147: Head of a Bearded Man
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1932.147
- People
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- Head of a Bearded Man
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 15th-16th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/298520
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk, with some incising, on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 15.7 × 9.4 cm (6 3/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- inscription: Verso, bottom, Black chalk: Michael Angelo / 70
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- 1932.147
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Anny Popp, Die Medici-kapelle Michelangelos (Munich, Germany, 1922), p. 156
- Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 122, p. 74, as School of Michelangelo
- Luitpold Dussler, Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo: Kritischer Katalog, Gebr. Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1959), no. 383, p. 207
- Charles de Tolnay, Corpus dei disegni di Michelangelo, Istituto Geografico de Agostini-Novara (Novara, 1976), vol. II,
- Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 12, pp. 36-37, and p. 8, repr.
- Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 30, repr. fig. 9
- "Exhibitions", Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1991-92, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1993), repr. p. 35
- Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")
Verification Level
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