The Head of Saint John the Evangelist

c. 1580

Federico Barocci

Artist, Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper lined with linen

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 42 x 31.7 cm (16 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.11.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland; (P. & D. Colnaghi, London); NGA purchase in 1979.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints, Cleveland Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, not in catalogue.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2012

  • Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2012-2013, cat. 8.10, repro.

2013

  • Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, National Gallery of Art, London, 2013, cat. 8.10, repro.

Bibliography

1978

  • J.B. [Jacob Bean]. Review of The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci exhibition. Master Drawings 16, no. 4, Winter 1978: 452.

  • Pillsbury, Edmund. "The Oil Studies of Federico Barocci,"Apollo 108, no. 199, September 1978: 171-172, 173 (note 1), pl. I.

  • Smith, Graham. "Federico Barocci at Cleveland and New Haven." The Burlington Magazine 116 (May 1978): 333.

1985

  • De Grazia, Diane. "Refinement and Progression of Barocci's Entombment: The Chicago Modello," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 1 (Fall 1985): 36, fig. 8.

1997

  • McCullagh, Suzanne Folds, and Laura M. Giles. Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1997: 18, under no. 16.

Wikidata ID

Q64561219

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