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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.43
People
Attributed to Domenico Beccafumi, Italian (Cortine in Valdibiena Montaperti, Italy 1486 - 1551 Siena, Italy)
Title
Head Studies
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211344

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
Dimensions
13.1 x 19.7 cm (5 3/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • gallery label: cardboard framing materials, black ink on printed adhesive label: Stock # K5484
    Line # 22
    Dept: OMD

    A bar code sticker fixed to the label, reads 03275856
  • collector's mark: lower left, brown ink, stamp: HK [with caduceus] [Lugt 3484, mark of Dr. Rudolf Koch]
  • inscription: back of mount, l.r., graphite: DH-
  • inscription: back of mount, l.l., graphite, Italian: Beccafumi, Domenico (??) 1484-1559
  • inscription: back of mount, l.l., brown ink: No. 1.
  • inscription: on back of mount, u.l., graphite, Italian: Beccafumi
  • inscription: verso, in u.l. margin, Italian: mecanino
    [direct view of the inscription is obscured by the mount, but traces of the inscription are visible through the paper at the upper side of the right margin of the drawing. Because of this visibility, mark is probably ink.]
  • inscription: recto, l.r., graphite, Italian: mecanino

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Rudolf Koch (Lugt 3484), Bamberg. Bernice Davidson, New York, NY, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernice Davidson
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.43
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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