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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.148
People
Attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
Profile Head of a Young Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper mounted at the edges to decorated mount
Dimensions
13.6 × 10 cm (5 3/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: l.l., black ink, stamped: L. 2799
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/26/2004.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Mayor, London (Lugt 2799).[1] Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

[1] The drawing's mount is also of a type frequently used by Mayor.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.148
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1623E, p. 221 as Andrea di Michelangelo
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 121, p. 74; vol. 2, repr. fig. 77, as school of Michelangelo
  • Luitpold Dussler, Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo: Kritischer Katalog, Gebr. Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1959), no. 382, p. 207
  • 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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