drawing
- Museum number
- 1994,1105.7
- Description
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Study of head and right arm of a man, for an apostle in the 'Transfiguration' in the Duomo at Montagnana. c.1555
Black and white chalk on blue paper
- Production date
- 1555
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This drawing, recently re-discovered unattributed, was published twice by scholars who knew it only from the photograph when it was included in a sale at Sotheby's 25 June 1970: first by Richard Cocke in his 1984 monograph on Veronese's drawings (no. 139) and again in an article by W. R. Rearick in "Master Drawings", XXX, 1992, p. 146.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1994,1105.7
