Head of an Angel; Two Heads [verso]

1600/1602

Agostino Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1557 - 1602

Medium

red chalk; pen and brown ink on laid paper
Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

Overall: 17.5 x 16.8 cm (6 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
support: 18.2 x 17.8 cm (7 3/16 x 7 in.)
Accession

1983.74.7.b

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kende Gallery, New York); Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, VT; his granddaughter, Jessie Nordin Audette, 1983; NGA purchase in 1983.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 113.

1979

Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 5.

Inscriptions

upper center in graphite: H57.210; lower left: Tibaldi, Bologna1527-91; lower right: B1522; lower right in black ink: No.116c

Wikidata ID

Q64533478