drawing
- Museum number
- T,13.91
- Description
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An old man, three-quarter length, seated in profile to left, his right elbow resting on his leg, his hand supporting his chin
Red chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
- Production date
- 1553-1613
- Dimensions
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Height: 201 millimetres
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Width: 159 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The tarditional attribution to Durante was accepted by Gere and Pouncey.
Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, I, no. 12, pl. 13
Gere & Pouncey 1983
[Listed as SL,5212.91 in Gere & Pouncey 1983]
The traditional attribution makes perfect sense: many of the figures in Durante's paintings are of exactly the same kind of rough peasant type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1769
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- T,13.91
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FAWK,5212.91