Head of a Bearded Man
1753
Artists
Dimensions
28.5 × 20.5 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.) mat: 40.5 × 31 cm (15 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.) frame: 52.4 × 43 × 3.2 cm (20 5/8 × 16 15/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Convent of the Somaschi (Santa Maria Salute), Venice. Leopoldo Cicognara. Antonio Canova. Francesco Pesaro. Edward Cheney, Purchase, 1842, Auction sale at Sotheby's London, 1885. Presumably as part of lot no. 1024. Sotheby's, London, 1885, Auction sale, presumably part of lot 1024, 1885. E. Parsons and Sons, London. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London. Richard Owen, Paris. Andoga. F. Gentili. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, Purchase, 1931, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1946.
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