Five Grotesque Heads
1750–1800
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk
- Dimensions
- 29.5 × 20.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208415
From an early age, Gaetano Gandolfi was admired for his drawings, many of which were created as independent works of art and avidly collected by Italian and British patrons. This drawing is one of Gandolfi’s so-called teste pittoriche, or pictorial heads. Devised by the artist in the 1770s, this genre is based on contemporary academic theories that proposed that human emotions could be scientifically classified by facial expressions.
Provenance
Mayer, 1969.277
Registry history
- 1750–1800 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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