DrawingsFrench19th century

Head of a Saint with a Beard

19th century

Artists

Pierre Henri Puvis de ChavannesArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk and brown wash(?) on gray-blue wove paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 20.5 x 15.4 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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