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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.173
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Portrait of a Man's Head in Profile
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait Study: Profile of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1817
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305649

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions
21.4 x 11.8 cm (8 7/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number
8.1955.173
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Carew Huntington, Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, exh. cat., ed. Robert A. Yassin (Ann Arbor, MI, 1972), p. 31, cat. 6, pl. 17
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 204, reproduced in b/w fig. 520
  • William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 229-230, cat. 90, ill.
  • Marcia Goldberg, "Washington Allston and Barrière's Villa Aldobrandini", Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Department of Fine Arts of Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH, 1983-1984), vol. XLI, pp. 81-85; reproduced p. 84, fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, University of Michigan Museum of Art
  • "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980
  • 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/2025 - 05/05/2025

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