Small Grotesque Head, 1622

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.4 x 11.1 cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

sheet: 14.6 x 11.4 cm (5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Brown 1973, no. 10, State i/ii

Accession Number

2003.26.2

Artists / Makers

Jusepe de Ribera (artist) Spanish, 1591 - 1652

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: SHP (in monogram) ABR (in monogram) / 1622; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: B. 8, F. Van Wyngarede (not deciphered) / (not deciphered) 1st st. very fine 7167

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 29 November 2002, no. 5231); (David Tunick, New York); purchased by NGA, 2003.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1973: Brown, Jonathan. Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.