Head of a young man, leaning on his left hand: PD.1-1950

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Head of a young man, leaning on his left hand

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Notes

History note: Domenico Tiepolo; his pupil, Felice Bossi; Giovanni Domenico Bossi; C.F.Beyerlen; Bossi-Beyerlen sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882, part of lots 640-649; ?Dr O.Eisenmann; ?Dr Wilhelm Lübke; Joseph Baer and Sons, Frankfurt; Dr Hans Wendland, Lugano, his sale, Berlin, Ball-Graupe, 24 April 1931, lot 100; Paul Cassirer, London; Grete Ring

Measurements and weight

Height: 254 mm
Width: 196 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

School or Style

Italian

Materials used in production

Whitening
Red chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( faded, blue-grey)

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Red chalk, heightened with white on faded blue-grey paper

Inscription or legends present

Text: 19
Location: Top right
Method of creation: Red chalk

Text: 725
Location: Lower left
Method of creation: Ink

References and bibliographic entries

Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Forty-second Annual Report, for the Year 1950
Treasures in Cambridge page(s): 39, 45
'Four Drawings from the Fitzwilliam Museum' page(s): 13-14
The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey page(s): 333
'Treasures of Cambridge' page(s): 105
'Domenico Tiepolo's earliest frescoes at Zianigo' page(s): 356
The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo page(s): 60
Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings: Text page(s): 277

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.1-1950
Primary reference Number: 7906
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 16 July 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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