Art, literature & history
Head of a Man Looking Up
1770s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over charcoal, heightened with white chalk on ochre prepared paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 32.1 × 20.1 cm (12 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.111.135
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Pietro Antonio Novelli. Head of a Man Looking Up. Pietro Antonio Novelli; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Antonio_Novelli,_Head_of_a_Man_Looking_Up,_1770s,_NGA_139293.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Head of a Man Looking Up — Pietro Antonio Novelli. 1770s.
Medium: pen and brown ink over charcoal, heightened with white chalk on ochre prepared paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 32.1 × 20.1 cm (12 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.111.135. Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.