About This Artwork
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
French, 1827-1875
Head of a Mann.d.
Black chalk and black crayon, with stumping, on gray laid paper
154 x 103 mm
Worcester Sketch Fund, 1974.48
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Ownership History
Possibly the artist's estate; possibly the artist's brother, Edward Carpeaux, Elko, Nev. [a letter from Paul Ogden in the curatorial file]. Private Collection, San Rafael, Calif., to around 1939 [letter mentioned above]. Isabelle Percy West, Calif., c. 1939-c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]. Paul Ogden, Lafayette, Calif., c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.