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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar

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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar
1762-1834
Study for Self-Portrait
1806
Black chalk, heightened lightly in white on gray paper; pentimenti in head and right hands; verso gone over in black chalk.
9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches (243 x 182 mm)
Gift of Margot and C. Leonard Gordon in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr.'s tenure as Director.
2008.42
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Notes: 

Watermark: not visible.

Inscription: 

Numbered in black chalk at lower left, 375.

Provenance: 
Album factice of the artist bequeathed to his pupil, Antonio Bianchi; Marcello Aldega and Margot Gordon; New York.
Associated names: 

Bianchi, Antonio, 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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Artist page: 
Wicar, Jean-Baptiste Joseph
School: 
French
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints