Portrait of a Man

c. 1700

Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Associated Names
Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Artist, Bolognese, 1665 - 1747

The image depicts a person from the waist up, seated and slightly turned to the right. The person's face is turned to the left side of the frame and features expressive eyes, an aquiline nose, and full lips. The person has curly hair cascading around their face and neck. They are wearing flowing robes, and their left arm with a hand visible extends towards the viewer. The background includes light sketching of foliage.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23 × 18 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.65.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Riccomini 2014, no. 27

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby’s New York, 9 January 1996, no. 47); (Jean-Luc Baroni, London); Private collection, France; (Didier-Aaron, Paris and New York); purchased 2021 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2014

  • Riccòmini, Marco. Giuseppe Maria Crespi, I disegni e le stampe, catalogo ragionato. Turin, 2014: no. 27.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso in purple chalk: Coghetti?

Watermarks

countermark CR? GR? GK?

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