About the Artwork
Head of a Boy Facing Right
mid-17th century
Carlo Dolci
1616-1687
Italian
Unknown
Black and red chalk on ivory antique laid paper
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 6 1/4 inches (21.4 × 15.9 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR101
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Watermark: [fragment of trunctuated crown]
Provenance
March 4- 7, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 811
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 286, no. A27.
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circle of Carlo Dolci, Head of a Boy Facing Right, mid-17th century, black and red chalk on ivory antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR101.
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