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Formal portrait of a young man in eighteenth century attire, turned to the right, facing us.

A fair-skinned man wears an unbuttoned brown coat with white collar, lace shirt and silver buttons. He has grey curly hair with a black ribbon in the back and short sideburns framing his face, he’s is turned to us in three-quarter view with his left side in slight shadow. He has dark eyes, no smile, dimpled chin, and a placid look on his face. The background is undefined neutral with a bit of illumination behind the man.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.43
People
Rosalba Carriera, Italian (Venice, Italy 1675 - 1757 Venice, Italy)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Young Gentleman, half-length, in a brown coat, turned to the right
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361157

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on blue paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions
57.7 × 46 cm (22 11/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, on stretched paper at top of stretcher, black ink: 99
  • inscription: verso of inside of frame, top center, black ink: [up arrow] 99
  • plaque: verso of frame, upper left, gold oval with black paint: 78
  • label: side of frame, lower left, brown ink: No 123
  • label: verso of frame, lower left, printed text: 30-JAN-18 / Sale 15172 / Lot 59 / CHRISTIE'S
  • inscription: verso of back board, upper center, graphite?: P [?] [illegible]
  • inscription: verso of back board, graphite: [illegible text]
  • label: verso of back board, upper right, printed text: 30-JAN-18 / Sale 15172 / Lot 59 / CHRISTIE'S
  • inscription: verso of back board, upper left, tape, black marker: 59 15172
  • label: verso of back board, upper left, printed text: SN00576610/002 / 1702131
  • inscription: verso of back board, lower center, printed text on paper: [image of the three magi] SANCTI TRES REGES / GASPAR, MELCHIOR, / ET BALDASSAR. / Orate pro nobis, nunc, & in / hora mortis noƒtræ. / Liss. Rè Maggi in Colo- / nia per la gratia d'IDDIO prefervano i Viandanti dalle / mal' ore de' cammini, mal / di Teƒta, mal Caduco, Fe- / bre, da Stregarie, e da ogni / forte di Malefici, Morte / ƒubitanea / In Colon. & in Pad. con lic. di Sup.
  • inscription: verso of back board, lower center, blue chalk: 98

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Royal Collections, Dresden, by 1765 (inventory number P78), returned; to the Wettin family, 1924. [1] H. Ball, Berlin, 1925. Catalina von Pannwitz, Hartecamp and London (1876-1959). [Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York]. Sold [through Christie's, New York, January 30, 2018, lot 59]; to Harvard Art Museums

Notes
[1] Returned to the Wettin family as part of a treaty between the state of Saxony and the Albertin branch of the Wettin family as part of the compensation for the nobility for their expropriation following World War I.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Paul J. Haldeman Acquisition Fund and the Richard Norton Fund
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.43
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des tableaux de la Galerie Electorale a Dresde (Dresden, 1765), not referenced specifically, but see note on p. 239
  • Karl Wörmann, Katalog der königlichen Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, Wilhelm Hoffmann (Dresden, 1887), p. 770, possibly no. 78
  • H. Posse, Katalog der Staatlichen Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, Buchdruckerei der Wilhelm und Berta von Baensch Stiftung and Julius Bard (Dresden and Berlin, 1920), p. 294, probably no. 78
  • Bernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera, Umberto Allemandi & C. (Turin, 1988), p. 302, no. 201, repr. as fig. 175
  • Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 113, repr.
  • Bernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera, 1673-1757: Maestra del pastello nell' Europa ancien régime, Umberto Allemandi & C. (Turin, 2007), pp. 218, cat. no. 220, repr.
  • Andreas Henning, "Rosalba Carriera e la collezione dei suoi pastelli a Dresda." Rosalba Carriera, 1673-1757: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi 26-28 aprile 2007, ed. Giuseppe Pavanello (Verona, 2009), p. 337, cat. no. III-24
  • Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, website, Pastels & Pastellists, 2018, cat. no. J.21.2259, repr.; http://pastellists.com/Articles/Carriera3.pdf [accessed February 12, 2018]
  • Old Master & British Drawings, auct. cat. (New York, January 30, 2018), pp. 20-21, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/19/2019 - 01/24/2022

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