Head of a Bearded Man
1715
Artist, Roman, 1666 - 1724
Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel and colored chalks on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sight size: 32.2 x 26.4 cm (12 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1984.3.16
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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