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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.373
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Profile Head of an Old Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298616

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream wove paper
Dimensions
12.9 × 9.5 cm (5 1/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/14/2002.

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
1932.373
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, I disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1906), no. 78, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 108, p. 69, as Italian 16th century
  • Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 17, p. 257, repr. fig. 17
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 123 ("Cartella C.L.")

Verification Level

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