1999.8: Upturned Head of A Man; verso: Clasped Hands

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.8

People

Nicolas Mignard, French (Troyes 1606 - 1668 Paris)

Title

Upturned Head of A Man; verso: Clasped Hands

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294023

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk and white chalk on tan antique laid paper

Dimensions

29.3 × 22.1 cm (11 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Galerie Jean-François Baroni, Paris] sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1993, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.8

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. 233, p. 424, repr.
• Katherine Eremin, Angela Chang, and Ariel O'Connor, Jade in the Lab, Early Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019), Pages 28-47

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