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Study of a Man's Head: One of the Fathers*

Image credit: Sir John Soane’s Museum

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Sir John Soane’s Museum

London

Title

Study of a Man's Head: One of the Fathers*

Date

1699

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91.8 x W 71.1 cm

Accession number

SM P100

Acquisition method

acquired, before 1836–1837

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

1. 1699 2. Latin inscription on the lower half of the left page of the open book from De Officiis by Cicerto and Latin inscription on the upper right page of the open book similar to a passage in Hesiod's Work and Days, lines 21-26; the inscription is close but not the same as modern translations and the last line seems to have been changed by the artist from a reference to a poet's jealously of another poet to a painter's jealousy of another painter.

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