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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.11
People
Elisabetta Sirani, Italian (1638 - 1665)
Title
Head of a Young Female Saint; verso: Sketch of a Head
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Head of a Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312439

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
25.9 × 19.3 cm (10 3/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in nineteenth-century hand: Elisabetta Sirrani f

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Von Quandt. John Witt Randall, Boston, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.11
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 299

Verification Level

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