Head of Christ
c. 1670
Artist, German, 1630 - 1704

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk with white heightening on brown oatmeal paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 23.3 x 17 cm (9 3/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.65.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Sumowski, undescribed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private Collection, Italy; (sale, Galerie Gerde Bassenge, Berlin, 1-2 December 1981, no. 4264); (bought by Stephan List for C.G. Boerner Inc., Düsseldorf, 1981); Ian Woodner, New York, 1984; (sale, Christie's, New York, 2 July 1991, no. 189); (C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1979
Sumowski, Werner. Drawings of the Rembrandt School. Edited and translated by Walter L. Strauss. New York: Abaris Book, 1979-1984.
1991
Erwerbungen 1990-1991, 500 Jahre Graphik-Zeichnungen, Teil II, Zeichnungen. C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1991, no. 132.
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left verso in black chalk: Joh. Mayr; by later hand, lower left verso in ink: 6 No 592
Wikidata ID
Q64582063