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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.147
People
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
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
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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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