DrawingsItalian18th century

Two Studies of a Kneeling Man; verso: Kneeling Man with Hands Folded in Prayer

18th century

Artists

Pietro LonghiArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on tan antique laid paper (r. and v.)

Culture

Italian

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

35.9 × 27.5 cm (14 1/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Dr. Ludwig Pollak, Rome (Lugt 788B on recto and verso). [Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd., London] sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 1994, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999

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