European Drawings - 1, Catalogue of the Collections

JONATHAN RICHARDSON, SR.

147 Self-Portrait Wearing a

Cloth -Hd t

Black and white chalk on blue paper; H: 30.3 cm (nI5/i6

in.); W: 23.2 cm (pVs in.)

85. GB. 21 o

MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: None.

PROVENANCE: (Sale, Sotheby's, London, March 16,

1978 , lot 23); art market, London.

EXHIBITIONS: None.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.

Tms IS ONE OF MANY SELF-PORTRAIT

Richardson, apparently made for their ow

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drawn late in life, it is comparable in pose and expressive

character to a pen-and-pencil self-portrait in the National

Portrait Gallery, London (inv. 3023), dated 1736. An-

other drawing showing the artist wearing a turban, in

similar technique (with red chalk), was sold just after this

one at Sotheby's from the same source (London, 1978,

lo.t. 24). The use _. in. the A Museum x , s , sheet ^111,1, of black chalk on

blue paper with luminous white chalk highlights reflects

an interest in Venetian draughtsmanship, and the deep

shadows recall contemporary drawings by Piazzetta.

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