Small Grotesque Head
1622
Artist, Spanish, 1591 - 1652

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 14.4 x 11.1 cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
sheet: 14.6 x 11.4 cm (5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2003.26.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Brown 1973, no. 10, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 29 November 2002, no. 5231); (David Tunick, New York); purchased by NGA, 2003.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.
1973
Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: SHP (in monogram) ABR (in monogram) / 1622; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: B. 8, F. Van Wyngarede (not deciphered) / (not deciphered) 1st st. very fine 7167
Markings
none
Watermarks
none