1994.144: Head of an Apostle
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1994.144
- People
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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
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- 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
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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
- Permissions
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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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