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Study of a male head

Maker

(artist)
1553-1626

Title

Study of a male head

Date of Production

(circa) 1596 - 1597

Medium

charcoal with stumping on laid paper (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 44 cm
Width: 34.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.WF.4664

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Franklin (?); Max de Beer (London); purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, September 1958

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre (in nostril of figure): too indistinct to make out.

Inscription: none on the drawing. Mount (removed and now kept separately in store), Recto: upper left corner, graphite, circled: “2108”; upper centre, graphite, upside down (must have been used for one drawing one way and then repurposed and turned around): “Stradanus”; upper left, graphite, upside down: “Andrea Vannuchi del Sarto 1488-1530. / Aus den Cabinet Oudaaan”; lower centre, graphite: “Cristoforo Roncalli / (il Pomerancio)” and beside that, circled: “28”; lower right corner, circled, acc. no.: “4664”.

Collector's mark: Recto: upper left corner, stamped in black ink: unidentified collector’s mark (not in Lugt).

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