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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.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, Greater London WC2A 3BP England
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