Head of Saint Stephen: Study for the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jacopo Cavedone

Title

Head of Saint Stephen: Study for the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality)

Date

1627–1630

Medium

Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk and white oil paint, on brown laid paper, laid down on Japanese paper, edge mounted to off-white wove paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "IS" (probably a transcription of the collector’s mark of the Earl Spencer [L.1530]); inscribed recto, on former mount: "Lanfranco"

Dimensions

38.4 × 29.9 cm (15 1/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

William D. Shorey Fund; Sara R. Shorey and Henry C. Woods Endowments

Reference Number

1992.173

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