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A Male Nude Lying on a Rock
Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, 1729–1804)
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink with several shades of brown wash, heightened with white, on paper washed gray-brown
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.5 × 51 cm (13 9/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Davis and Carol Noble
Accession Number2023.534
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings
Provenance1998, sold by Galerie Terrades-Grunspan, Paris, to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, MA; January 23, 2008, Jeffrey E. Horvitz sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 78, bought in and sold privately to Davis and Carol Noble, Boston; 2023, gift of Davis and Carol Noble to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 2023)