Currently not on view
Portrait head of a young man
attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian, 1674–1755
x1948-691
Information
Title
Portrait head of a young man
Maker
attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
19.7 x 16.5 cm. (7 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-691
Inscription
In ink, on separate sheet cut from old mount: Ritratto di Pietro Matastasio Poeta fatto | da Giovane dal Cav. Pier Leone Ghezzi/a Roma l'anno 1716.
In graphite, verso, on mount: Colnaghi 1934.
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black, lower left: [Initials AS inscribed in a triangle] [Lugt 176]
Stamp, verso, on mount: [circle with initials D.F.P.] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
Type
Subject
Alfred Seymour, stamp [Lugt 176]; Colnaghi; Dan Fellows Platt, stamp [Lugt 750a].
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 198, no. 637 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
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Nicholas Turner, "Review of "catalogue of Italian drawings in the Art Museum", Princeton University by Felton Gibbons," Art bulletin 62, no. 3 (Sept., 1980), p. 486-490.
, p. 489
