Head of a Man Looking Up
1770s
Artist, Venetian, 1729 - 1804

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over charcoal, heightened with white chalk on ochre prepared paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 32.1 × 20.1 cm (12 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.135
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Einar Perman, Stockholm; Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Munich, 1977, 228, no. 105 (entry by Peter Dreyer).
1979
Zeichnungen italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 60, no. 106.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 59.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 106.
Bibliography
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 228-229.
2011
Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 136-137.
Watermarks
rearing unicorn (not in Briquet, Heawood or Churchill)
Wikidata ID
Q64619668