Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar
1762-1834
Study for Self-Portrait
1806
9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches (243 x 182 mm)
Black chalk, heightened lightly in white on gray paper; pentimenti in head and right hands; verso gone over in black chalk.
2008.42
Gift of Margot and C. Leonard Gordon in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr.'s tenure as Director.
Notes
Watermark: not visible.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered in black chalk at lower left, 375.
Associated names
Bianchi, Antonio, former owner.
Aldega, Marcello, former owner.
Gordon, Margot, former owner.
Aldega, Marcello, former owner.
Gordon, Margot, former owner.
Bibliography
Gordon, Margot and Aldega, Marcello, Jean-Baptiste -Joseph Wicar Drawings. Rome, Edizioine Luca, 1995, no 11, repr.
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Century Drawings
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