
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011285The Head of a Young Man Looking Upwards to the Right
Also known as: Head of a Young Man Almost in Profile to Right and Looking Up
Inscriptions
VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in graphite: [b?] ; VERSO OF TERTIARY SUPPORT, lower right, in graphite: 2 / B
Provenance
William Bateson, London (Lugt 2604a, lower left, in black ink); his sale [Sotheby's, London, 29 April, 1929, no. 112] (Knox, 1980, p. 212, no. M.23); [Thomas Agnew & Sons]
Exhibition history
Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933). Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937). Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 14-April 24, 1938). Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938). Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 22-October 26, 1941). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 12, 1948). Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-March 27, 1949). Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). The Tiepolos and Their World. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 6-November 22, 1981). National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
- Date
- before 1752
- Medium
- red chalk (with stumping) over black chalk, heightened with white chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 22.2 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.); Secondary Support: 22.2 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1929.558
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