Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Head of an Old Man with Open Mouth Facing Three Quarters to the Right

Italian School
16th century

Head of an Old Man with Open Mouth Facing Three Quarters to the Right

10 13/16 x 7 inches (275 x 178 mm)
Black and white chalk, on blue laid paper.
IV, 58a

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on mount, lower center, in pen & brown ink, "Palma Vecchio", in lower right corner, in graphite, "92/181", at lower left, in graphite, "2"; on verso of mount, at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "R.55/Zg.14/Ti.71/L.39/TK.49/L.36/g".
Associated names
Palma, il Vecchio, 1480?-1528, Formerly attributed to.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Bouverie, John, 1722 or 1723-1750, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department