Head of a Bearded Man (recto) Sketches of Architectural Details (verso)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Ghirlandaio, Domenico, School of

Title

Head of a Bearded Man (recto) Sketches of Architectural Details (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1500–1529

Medium

Red chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink (verso) on buff laid paper, pieced and laid down on buff laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, upper center in graphite: "That with 15th century writing / architectural drawings . .424/"; upper right, in pen and brown ink: "10"; lower left, in red crayon: "78"; inscribed verso, upper portion, in pen and brown ink: "Giovanni Francesco di Marcantonio . . . .Piccolomini. . . / . . .denno habere per insino questo di 24esimo di settembre nove / cento ottonta nove . . . sonno per li contant / mile quatrocento quindici . . . / hbbianno venduto francesco di . . . / . . . / . . . / . . ./ . . ."

Dimensions

24.3 × 18.4 cm (9 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.3166

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