DrawingsDanish18th century

Head of a Young Man

1780

Artists

Thomas BrunnArtist

Johann Georg WillePrevious attribution

Pierre-Alexandre WillePrevious attribution

Jacob Matthias SchmutzerPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Two distinct shades of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Danish

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

55.1 x 40.5 cm (21 11/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Annamaria Edelstein at Succi Ltd., London (as of 1987), sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, sold; to Harvard Art Museum, 2008, inv. no. 2008.266

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