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.

Portrait of Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Francesco Hayez
1791-1882

Portrait of Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

16 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (412 x 327 mm)
Black chalk, stumped, on wove paper.
1974.9

Purchased on the Cary Music Fund.

Notes
Watermark: J. Whatman / Turkey Mill.
Accompanying the drawing is a three-line Donizetti autograph and a lock of his hair.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and signed by the artist in pencil at lower right, "Hayez / ritratto di Gaetano Donizetti".
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 169.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department