Study after a Work attributed to Giovanni Bellini

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Drawing details

Title: Study after a Work attributed to Giovanni Bellini
Date: c.1854-59
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1139 p.77
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper right "Giav. Bellini" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

This is a copy of a work attributed to Giovanni Bellini (Italian Renaissance painter, c.1430-1516).

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of the heads of two male figures. 

Provenance

Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); sold through the Maas Gallery (art dealers) in 1969; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969