Head of a Man with a Cap
1500 - 1599
Artist
Artist After, Florentine, 1449 - 1494
Italian 16th Century, after Domenico Ghirlandaio
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal highlighted with white
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 36.2 × 25.4 cm (14 1/4 × 10 in.)
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Accession Number
2015.143.39
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792 (Lugt 2364). William A. Clark, 1839-1925; bequest to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1926; acquired in 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
The William A. Clark Collection. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978 (no cat.).
Bibliography
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Unpublished manuscript, 1925: pt. 1, 93, no. 13.
1928
Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection. Washington, DC, 1928: 57 (as Ghirlandaio).
1932
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 60, no. 2188 (as Ghirlandaio).
1961
Berenson, Bernard. I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini. 3 vols. Milan, 1961, 2: 166, no. 892A**; 3: fig. 294 (as Ghirlandaio).
1964
Pouncey, Philip. Review of Bernard Berenson, I Disegni dei pittori Fiorentini. Master Drawings 2, no. 3 (Autumn 1964): 285.
2009
Bambach, Carmen. "Bernard Berenson's 'The Drawings of the Florentine Painters' Classified, Criticized, and studied as Documents in the History and Appreciation of Tuscan Art, with a copious Catalogue Raisonne, 1903." The Burlington Magazine 151, no. 1279 (October 2009): 696 n. 49 (as Ghirlandaio, but retouched).
Watermarks
3-rung ladder inscribed in an oval with a flower or crown above, chain line runs vertically through center.