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Francesco Hayez
1791-1882
Portrait of Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Black chalk, stumped, on wove paper.
16 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (412 x 327 mm)
Purchased on the Cary Music Fund.
1974.9
Notes:
Watermark: J. Whatman / Turkey Mill.
Accompanying the drawing is a three-line Donizetti autograph and a lock of his hair.
Inscription:
Inscribed and signed by the artist in pencil at lower right, "Hayez / ritratto di Gaetano Donizetti".
Provenance:
R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Boston.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 169.
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