Head of a Man

Domenico Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 8 x 8.7 cm (3 1/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
    support: 21.5 x 22.7 cm (8 7/16 x 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.17.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nathaniel Hone (Lugt 2793). Private collection (sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1969, no. 79); Yvonne Tan Bunzl; NGA purchase in 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Old Master Drawings, Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, 1971, no. 13.

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 24A (as Attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo).

1976

  • Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia, Cini Foundation, Venice, 1976, no. 54 (as Venetian artist, c. 1520)(Konrad Oberhuber).

2003

  • "The Radiance of Apollo: the Italian Renaissance and Greece", National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004, no. 1413.

Bibliography

1976

  • Rearick, William R. Tiziano e il disegno veneziano del suo tempo. Florence, 1976: 95.

1979

  • Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Ancora su Domenico Campagnola: Una questione controversa." Arte veneta 33, 1979: 44, 47, 48, 49, notes 23 & 27, fig. 8.

1987

  • Wethey, Harold E. Titian and His Drawings with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 182, no. A-8, fig. 193.

2001

  • Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 214, note 80.

Wikidata ID

Q64541061

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