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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.144
People
Benedetto Luti, Italian (1666 - 1724)
Title
Head of an Apostle
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1712
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312196

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on gray antique laid paper, mounted overall to multi-laminate eighteenth-century paper
Dimensions
41 x 33.1 cm (16 1/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso of mount, brown ink: Roma 1712 / Benedetto Luti fece
  • inscription: Inscription in pen and brown ink. Same date and signature appear on back of frame.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sotheby's, New York, sold at auction, January 14, 1987, no. 129, repr.
Christie's, London, Ian Woodner sale, sold to Vermeer Associates Limited, July 2, 1991, lot 292, repr.
Vermeer Associates Limited, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994. On long-term loan to HUAM from Vermeer Associates since 1992.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an Anonymous Donor
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.144
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 367, repr.

Verification Level

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