Unidentified artist
Study of a man's head: one of the Fathers
1699
Italy, painted
Oil on canvas
Height: 91.8cm
Width: 71.1cm
Inscription: Latin inscription on the lower half of the left page of the open book from De Officiis by Cicero 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.
Inscription: 1699
Museum number: P100
Not on display