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

Related Artworks

Drawings

Female Head, after a Pompeiian Fresco

Eben F. Comins, 1902

Watercolor and gouache on off-white illustration board

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Two Parrots Perched on a Branch; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

De Stijl Composition II

Andor Weininger, 1922

Gouache and graphite on cream wove paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Study of Female Figure

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Charcoal on off-white laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Waterfall

Ernest Fiene, 1925

Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Outskirts of Town with Bridge]

Lyonel Feininger, 20th century

Black crayon on paper

Black ink and wash and white gouache on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sketches of Ducks and a Goose

William Valentine Schevill, 19th-20th century

Graphite on paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (three minotaur heads, aerial view, right page)

Otto Piene, 1982

Colored marker on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Arth, on the Lake of Zug, after J.M.W. Turner

Harold Broadfield Warren, 19th-20th century

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

View of a Lake

Carl Gordon Cutler, 20th century

Watercolor over graphite? on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled

Christopher Wilmarth, 1987

Graphite on blue toned gesso prepared wove paper

20th centuryAmerican