Two Sketches of Male Heads [verso]

Baldassare Franceschini

Artist, Florentine, 1611 - 1689

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk; pen and brown ink (in another hand) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 23.8 x 17.2 cm (9 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
    support: 29.7 x 23.2 cm (11 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.74.10.b

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1969); Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, VT; his granddaughter, Alexis Ford Audette, 1983; NGA purchase in 1983.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Sixty Anonymous Master Drawings, H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1969, no. 34.

1970

  • Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 121.

1979

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 18.

1990

  • Julius S. Held: Drawings from His Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 1990, no. 19.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite, on mount: PHHTS; lower right: D917 I

Watermarks

Anchor (similar to Briquet 477-496)

Wikidata ID

Q64537112

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