Head of a Man

1580/1610 (?)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 8.4 x 6.6 cm (3 5/16 x 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.164

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jacques Auguste Boussac [1885-1962], Paris (Lugt 729b); sale, Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, 10-11 May 1926, lot 98, ill. (as Théodore Matham); Mrs. Joseph Fuller Feder, New York; to her grandson, Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 36-37, no. 7 (entry by Rozemarijn Landsman).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Matam; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 192 (in circle)

Wikidata ID

Q64579039

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