Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar

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1762-1834

Study for Self-Portrait

1806

Black chalk, heightened lightly in white on gray paper; pentimenti in head and right hands; verso gone over in black chalk.

9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches (243 x 182 mm)

Gift of Margot and C. Leonard Gordon in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr.'s tenure as Director.

2008.42

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Watermark: not visible.

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Numbered in black chalk at lower left, 375.

Provenance:

Album factice of the artist bequeathed to his pupil, Antonio Bianchi; Marcello Aldega and Margot Gordon; New York.

Associated names:

Bianchi, Antonio, former owner.
Aldega, Marcello, former owner.
Gordon, Margot, former owner.

Bibliography:

Gordon, Margot and Aldega, Marcello, Jean-Baptiste -Joseph Wicar Drawings. Rome, Edizioine Luca, 1995, no 11, repr.

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