1943.540: Head of a Girl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.540

People

Rosalba Carriera, Italian (Venice, Italy 1675 - 1757 Venice, Italy)

Title

Head of a Girl

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th-18th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297890

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pastel on antique laid paper, laid down on canvas

Dimensions

44.4 x 36 cm (17 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• (not assigned): Nothing on verso except old fragmentary papers (probably not the original papers). Samples in file.
  
  Also, some historic nails on proper R (left edge as you view it). Paper support trimmed so that it doesn't wrap around strainer, which is a bit unusual.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943, inv. no. 1943.540

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.540

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 9
• Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 113

Exhibition History

• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948

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