(verso)

Here attributed to ANNIBALE CARRACCI
(Italian, 1560 - 1609)

Head of a Boy with Eyes Closed (recto)
Head of a Woman with Braided Hair (verso)
circa 1583

Black chalk heightened with white on blue-gray paper (both)
7 3/8 x 5 ¾ inches (188x 146 mm.)

Inscription: at recto top left the number 283
Watermark: top of crown (partial, at edge of page)

Condition: Good. No made up areas or repair
Conservation: Removal of remnants of glued-on paper from edges of verso; lessening of two ink stains.
Conservator: Marjorie Shelley, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition:
"Master Drawings, 15th-20th centuries", Fred R. Kline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. July-September 2001. (Carracci on exhibition only)

Provenance:
Collection and Estate of Rudolph S. Joseph, Santa Barbara, CA,
ca. 1950-1998 (as unknown artist).
Fred R. Kline Gallery, Santa Fe (here attributed to Annibale Carracci).

Consulting Scholar: Sir Denis Mahon, from photographs,
has kindly offered his support.