Giacomo CAVEDONE
The Head of a Bearded Man
Epoque 1600-1750, 17th century
Origine Italy
Medium Charcoal, White chalk, Light brown washed paper
Dimension 27.1 x 20.3 cm (10⁵/₈ x 8 inches)
Laura Giles has kindly pointed out that a drawing of the same head in an identical pose, larger than the present sheet and showing more of the neck and head, is in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
Epoque: 1600-1750, 17th century
Origine: Italy
Medium: Charcoal, White chalk, Light brown washed paper
Signature: Numbered 18. and inscribed Domenichino / St. Gerolamo on the reverse of the old mount. Inscribed Original sketch of the Head of St. Gerome for his picture of the / Communion, now at Rome – by Domenichino and numbered 16 on the album page on which this drawing was formerly mounted.
Dimension: 27.1 x 20.3 cm (10⁵/₈ x 8 inches)
Provenance: From an album of miscellaneous, mostly Bolognese drawings, assembled by a certain Mr. Yeates in Italy in 1823 (according to an inscription on the first page of the album)
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s Olympia, 11 December 2002, lot 30
Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London, in 2003
Private collection.
Exhibition: New York and London, Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., Master Drawings, 2003, no.14.
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