Head of a Man, 1580/1610 (?)

Not on View

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 8.4 x 6.6 cm (3 5/16 x 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.164

Artists / Makers

French 16th/17th Century (artist) French

Italian 16th/17th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Matam; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 192 (in circle)

Provenance

Jacques Auguste Boussac [1885-1962], Paris (Lugt 729b); sale, Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, 10-11 May 1926, lot 98, ill. (as Théodore Matham); Mrs. Joseph Fuller Feder, New York; to her grandson, Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 36-37, no. 7 (entry by Rozemarijn Landsman).