Portrait Caricature of a Man

Artist Unidentified . Italy. 1600-1700. black and white chalk on brown paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.54.

Marks/Inscriptions

• of mount: I VILLEDARY (watermark, )
• "Cosmo the 3d - Grand Duke of Tuscany, from the life, by John Smibert" (inscription, old mount, below, pen and brown ink)

Provenance

• James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)