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Giacomo CAVEDONE (Sassuolo, 1577 - 1660 Bologna)
THE HEAD OF AN OLD MAN, PROBABLY ST JOSEPH, c. 1620Black chalk heightened with white on brown prepared paper15 x 10 3/4 in
38.1 x 27.3 cmProvenance
Probably Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), Paris (remnants of his typical blue mount),
his sale, Paris, F. Basan, 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, lot 361, 'une grosse Tete de vieillard, au bistre, rehaussé de blanc' (as Cavedone);
sale, London, Christie's, 1 July 1986, lot 83,
where acquired by Jeffrey E Horvitz,
his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2008, lot 57
Expositions
Gainesville, Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, et al., Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1991-93, no. 18
