Head of a Bearded Man

1572

Jost Amman

Artist, Swiss, 1539 - 1591

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink with white wash on blue prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 15.5 x 11.5 cm (6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.19

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

H.J. Nüscheler the Younger [1583-1645] (Lugt 1345), Zurich; Jacob Klein, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 1481b) [as per 6/17/2024 correspondence with Peter Fuhring];[1] (purchased by J. Halle, Munich, 1910); Victor Koch, London, 1928; (Jean-Luc Baroni/Colnaghi, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 10 July 1987; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
[1] This drawing appears in the auction catalogue of Jacob Klein's collection (scheduled to take place 7 December 1910, Frankfurter Kunstverein) as no. 61, Nicholas Manuel Deutsch. The auction did not take place as the entire collection was purchases by Halle (correspondence with Rhea Blok, 17 February 2025).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 1987, no. 3.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 73.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 56.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1930

  • Pilz, Kurt. Das graphisches Werk der Jost Amman. Unpublished dissertation. Nuremberg, 1930: 330-1.

1940

  • Pilz, Kurt. "Jost Ammann 1539-1591." Fränkische Heimat. 19 (1940): p. 12.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 56.

Inscriptions

recto: across bottom (abraded and partially trimmed), in white: IA 1572; verso: by later hand, lower center in graphite: Nicolas Manuel g[illegible] Deutsch / geb. Bern 1484

Markings

verso: Jacob Klein (Lugt 1481b, as unidentified mark, see provenance)

Wikidata ID

Q64591558

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