DrawingsItalian16th century

Head of a Bearded Man

16th century

Artists

Battista FrancoArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid decorative mount

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

12 × 9.2 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Comte de la Croix(?) (L. 2949, with his mark). Sir Peter Lely, London, England (L. 2093 with his mark). Joshua Reynolds, London, England (L. 2364 with his mark). William Morley, London, England ( L. 1826a; Morley's inscription is present on the old mount). Mrs Robert Frank, sold; [P. & D. Colnaghi, & Co. Ltd., London, England 1962], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

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