Bust of a Monk

1626

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld

Associated Names
Johann Heinrich Schönfeld

Artist, German, 1609 - c. 1682

The image is an etching on a sheet of paper depicting a profile view of a man from the shoulders up. The man is positioned in a slight three-quarter profile facing to the right. He has distinctive facial features, including a prominent nose and defined jawline, with a balding head that has a fringe of closely cut hair. The man is wearing a garment that appears to have a high collar or draped fabric around his neck. The etching is placed on a plain, speckled paper background, which is minimally textured, and has sparse markings, including a signature "Schonfeld" and a potential numbering in the lower right corner of the paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper mounted on buff paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 10.64 × 7.62 cm (4 3/16 × 3 in.)
    mount: 18.1 × 29.85 cm (7 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.113.60

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 12

  • Series Title

    Varie teste de capricci

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably William E. Suida [1]; by descent Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018
[1] per Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Museum Ulm. Johann Heinrich Schönfeld: Bilder, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Ulm, 1967: no. 201.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Johann Heinrich Schönfeldt, Gerlinde Lütke Notarp, author) Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 12.

Inscriptions

lower left verso in graphite: Schönfeld; lower left on mount in graphite: Schonfeld; lower right on mount in graphite: 1/50; center on mount in graphite: North

Watermarks

A23 (on mount)

Wikidata ID

Q77260981

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