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Head of a bearded man in profile

Maker

(artist)
1503-1540

Title

Head of a bearded man in profile

Date of Production

1524 - 1527

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper prepared with red wash, laid down on a paper support with gold borders

Dimensions

Height: 4.5 cm
Width: 3.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.359

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Major Adrian Merz, Grasmere; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 26 July 1966 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/05/2022-06/05/2022

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987

Literature

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2022
cat. no. 16
and on p. 84
ill. on p. 99

Parmigianino: dessins du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 17 December 2015-15 February 2016 Paris 2015
p. 36n53

Gnann, Achim, Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen, Petersberg 2007
vol. II, no. 258
ill.
agrees with Popham dating to Roman period ...More

Byam Shaw, James, Review of Parmigianino at the Courtauld, London, in 'The Burlington Magazine', Jul. 1987 - pp. 474-75; 129, 1012
p. 475

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 11

Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven and London 1971
no. 775
pl. 296
dated to Roman period or 'possibly earlier'

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 359
pl. XLIII(a)
dated c. 1522-24 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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