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Italian School
16th century
Head of a Man in Profile to the Left
ca. 1520-1530
Red chalk with some worked wet.
7 5/8 x 7 inches (194 x 178 mm); in decorative frame 16 3/8 x 15 7/8 x 1 3/4 inches
Thaw Collection.
1976.46
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Watermark: crossbow in a circle.
Inscription:
Inscribed in upper left corner, in pen and brown ink, "222".
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
Associated names:
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 210, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 8, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 270.
Exhibition of Italian Old Master Drawings. London : Baskett and Day, 1971.
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