Head of a Boy

second half of 16th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and brown ink with touches of graphite, heightened with white on blue prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.9 x 20.8 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

B. Hertz; John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch and London; Alfred Gathorne-Hardy [died 1918], London; Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy [1878-1972], London; Robert Gathorne-Hardy [1902-1973], London; (sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 3 May 1979, lot 8); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1869

  • Albert Dürer and Lucas van Leyden, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1869, no. 147.

1906

  • Early German Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1906, no. 5.

1961

  • German Art, 1400-1800, from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1961, no. 116.

1971

  • Loan Exhibition of Old Masters from the Colledtion of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, P.&D. Colnaghi, London and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971-72, no. 1.

1983

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 41.

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, 58.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 49.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 48.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 59.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 57.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1869

  • Robinson, J.C. Descriptive Catalogue of the Drawings by the Old Masters, Forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.. London, 1869 (2nd edn. 1876): no. 520 (no. 527).

1889

  • Dodgson, Campbell. The Dürer Society. London, 1889-1911: VII: 7.

1902

  • Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy. London, 1902: no. 108.

1905

  • Wölfflin, Heinrich. Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers. Munich, 1905: 137.

1911

  • Dodgson, Campbell. The Dürer Society: Index to the Plates and Text of Portfolios I-X (1898-1908). London, 1911: 67.

1920

  • Wöfflin, Heinrich. 'Dürer und Cima da Conegliano.' Der Kunstwanderer. (December 1920): 137.

1926

  • Wölfflin, Heinrich. Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers. Munich, 1926: 395.

1927

  • Lippmann, Friedrich and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. 7 vols. Berlin, 1883-1929: 7: no. 749.

1928

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 2 vols in 3. Augsburg, 1928-34: II: pl. 1, mentioned under no. 381.

1931

  • Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben und seine künstlerische Entwicklung. 2 vols. Berlin, 1928-31: II: 453, 571.

1937

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. 4 vols. Berlin, 1937: II: no. 437.

1943

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. 2 vols. Princeton, 1945: 1:117, 2:no. 1063.

1957

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürer: Leben und Werk. Berlin, 1957: 191.

1971

  • Anzelewsky, Fedja. Albrecht Dürer: Der malerische Werk. Berlin, 1971: mentioned under no. 102.

1974

  • Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 vols. New York, 1974: 2: no. 1508/22.

1982

  • Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. Supplement 2. New York, 1982: no. 1058.

1983

  • Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

  • Oberhuber, Konrad. "Sur quelques dessins Germaniques." Connaissance dea arts. 376 (1983): 77 (reproduced), 80.

  • Humfrey, Peter. Cima de Conegliano. Cambridge, 1983: 53, 124, mentioned under no. 88.

1987

  • Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 85.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 57.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and black ink: 1508 / .85.; lower right in pen and black ink: AD / 72; by later hand, upper center verso in red chalk: 227

Watermarks

initials VA (?)

Wikidata ID

Q64571991

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