2017.2: Head of a Man
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.2
- People
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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, French (Lyon 1736 - 1810 Lyon)
- Title
- Head of a Man
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Tête d'Homme
Former Title: Portrait de vieillard - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th-19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/357308
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 23.5 cm (13 × 9 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Pierre-Clément-Marie Faye (1770-1834), Lyon, by descent, sold [through De Baecque & Associés, Lyon, April 20, 2016, lot 33]. [Galerie Mazarini, Lyon], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Dessins Anciens, Aquarelles & Tableaux du XVIe au Milieu du XXe Siècle, auct. cat., Galerie Mazarini (Lyon, June 8, 2016), no. 15B, repr.
- Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), p. 13, fig. 2
Verification Level
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