Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004933Head of a Man
Provenance
Marquis de Fourquevaulx (not in Lugt), Paris. Emmanuel Bocher (b. 1835?), Paris [Lugt 267ter]. Louis Olry-Roederer (d. 1932, not in Lugt), Rheims. Purchased by The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, 1922 [Joachim, 1977, pp. 74-77]. Mr. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.
Publications
Seymour de Ricci, The Roederer Library of French Books: Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia, 1923), n.p. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 74-77. Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-Century French Book Illustration (Philadelphia, 1985), p. 28.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hubert François Gravelot / French, 1699-1773
- Date
- c. 1766
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 8.3 × 7.3 cm (3 5/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver
- Accession no.
- 1960.854.6
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