Head of a Bearded Man

1715

Benedetto Luti

Artist, Roman, 1666 - 1724

Benedetto Luti

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel and colored chalks on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sight size: 32.2 x 26.4 cm (12 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1984.3.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Maffeis 2012, no. IV.20


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marianne and Salomon van Berg, New York. Julius S. Held, Bennington, VT; purchased by NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 22.

1984

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 1984.

2000

  • Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 368, repro.

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1971

  • Bean, Jacob and Felice Stampfle. Drawings from New York Collections III: The Eighteenth Century in Italy. New York, 1971: 13.

1980

  • Bowron, E.P. Apollo. 111:220 1980, fig.12.

2012

  • Maffeis, Rodolfo. Benedetto Luti: L'ultimo maestro. Florence, 2012: no. IV.20

Inscriptions

on verso on orig. mount: Roma 1715 / Il Cavalier Bened etto Luti fece-

Wikidata ID

Q64537197


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