1932.357: Head of a Monk (?)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.357

People

Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)

Title

Head of a Monk (?)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298522

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, faded to green-brown, mounted down

Dimensions

actual: 29.4 x 19.9 cm (11 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower center, brown ink: Antoni van dyck
• collector's mark: lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 2799 [twice] (William Mayor)
• collector's mark: lower right, brown ink, stamp: L. 2364 (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 17883
• watermark: none visible
  
  Beta will not be made. No watermark visible; mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Joshua Reynolds, London (L. 2364, with his mark). William Mayor, London (L. 2799, with his mark). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles Alexander Loeser, Esq.

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.357

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 469, p. 245; vol. 2, repr. fig. 242, as Van Dyck (?)
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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