1932.148: Profile Head of a Young Man
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1932.148
- People
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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
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- 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
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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
- Permissions
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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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