DrawingsItalian18th century

Head of a Youth

18th century

Artists

Pietro Antonio NovelliArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink on buff antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.2 × 15.6 cm (8 3/4 × 6 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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