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Portrait of a Man at a Writing Desk

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions95.6 x 70.2 cm (37 5/8 x 27 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Accession number27.188
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1925, Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (b. 1878 - d. 1955), Florence and Rome; 1927, sold by Contini-Bonacossi to Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz (Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth, b. 1847 - d. 1929), Boston; 1927, gift of Mrs. Fitz to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: April 7, 1927)

NOTES:
[1] Accessioned as a work attributed to Diego Rodríquez de Silva y Velázquez.
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