The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 27, 2022

Sketch of a Head (verso)

1780s?

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Gaetano Gandolfi

(Italian, 1734-1802)

Italy, 18th century

Blue pastel (head); random pastel marks

Support: Brown laid paper

Sheet: 31.5 x 43.6 cm (12 3/8 x 17 3/16 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1980.116.b

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

center, in brown ink: A. ; lower center, in brown ink: Asimil tu es, e[t?] ego [s?]um Doctor, quid anoscit [illegible, crossed out] [illegible] ; lower left, in graphite: 46 [underlined, sideways] ; lower right, in graphite: 33 [sideways] / 232 [circled, sideways]

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