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A young boy’s head, emerging from clouds, is depicted from below in red chalk. His face is scrunched as if he is about to blow.

A young boy’s head is depicted from below in red chalk. His features are extremely foreshortened from the perspective of looking up from beneath him. His neck emerges from loosely drawn clouds. The boy’s face is scrunched up and his cheeks swollen as if he is about to blow out a long breath. His hair dances in loose tendrils in the wind. The drawing is very carefully worked up, although hatched lines on the boy’s chin and in the clouds are still visible.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.91
People
Agostino Carracci, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1557 - 1602 Parma, Italy)
Title
Head of a Wind God; verso: Reclining Male Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1597-1599
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296309

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on tan antique laid paper
Dimensions
38 x 32 cm (14 15/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
framed: 40.32 x 53.98 x 3.49 cm (15 7/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney and Louise Haskell Daly Funds
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.91
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 34, n.p., pl. 34, repr.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 266, p. 228, repr. (recto)
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 50, n.p., and pp. 12, 13 and 57, repr. color (recto)
  • Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Volume 3, Bolognese and Emilian Schools, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1994), p. 61, repr. (recto)
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 36 under "Red chalk"
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 27, p. 28, and p. 15, repr. fig. 14 (verso)
  • Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 43, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/08/2016 - 03/10/2017; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/07/2022 - 03/06/2023

Verification Level

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