About the Artwork
Head of a Man Wearing a Cap
ca. 1650
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Italian
Italian
Gouache and watercolor with pen and black and brown ink over a preliminary drawing in graphite, with a decorative border of pen and black ink, on buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 12 3/16 inches (23.3 × 31 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR59
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Watermark: BERGAMO [crowned with a circle, similar to Heawood 1867] Stamp, in black, lower right: Gelosi Stamp, in blue, lower right: [unidentified collector, possibly Genoels] Stamp, in purple, verso, lower left: Peoli (Lugt 2020)
Provenance
Count Gelosi [or Gelozzi] (Turin, Italy). unidentified collector, possibly Genoels (from which collection one of two Castiglione drawings in the Peoli sale is said to have come). J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 135 (as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione)
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. 295, no. A42.
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Italian, Head of a Man Wearing a Cap, ca. 1650, gouache and watercolor with pen and black and brown ink over a preliminary drawing in graphite, with a decorative border of pen and black ink, on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR59.
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