Currently not on view
Head of a Bearded Man, Looking Up,
1740s (?)
Agostino Masucci, Italian, 1690–1768
x1975-90
Information
Title
Head of a Bearded Man, Looking Up
Dates
1740s (?)
Maker
Medium
Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
Dimensions
27 × 20.6 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
frame: 54.6 × 41.9 × 3.2 cm (21 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the family and friends of Elias Wolf, Class of 1920, in honor of his 75th birthday
Object Number
x1975-90
Inscription
Lower right recto of mat and lower right verso of drawing, in graphite: L550;
Lower right recto of mat, in graphite: Shickman Gallery number D1943;
Culture
Type
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Subject
Bought from H. Shickman Gallery, New York, with funds given by Mrs. Wolf, the children, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stephens and Louis Wolf. Also Henry Ehrlich, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Ehrlich, Mr. and Mrs. William Ehrlich, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Shackleton. Purchase made in 1975, but fight and birthday in 1973.;
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1975," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 35, no. 1 (1976): p. 22-31., p. 28
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
