Head of a Man with a Cap, 1500 - 1599

Not on View

Medium

charcoal highlighted with white

Dimensions

sheet: 36.2 × 25.4 cm (14 1/4 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.143.39

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Domenico Ghirlandaio (artist after) Florentine, 1449 - 1494

Image Use

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Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792 (Lugt 2364). William A. Clark, 1839-1925; bequest to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1926; acquired in 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978 (no cat.).

Bibliography

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Unpublished manuscript, 1925: pt. 1, 93, no. 13.

1928: Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection. Washington, DC, 1928: 57 (as Ghirlandaio).

1932: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 60, no. 2188 (as Ghirlandaio).

1961: Berenson, Bernard. I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini. 3 vols. Milan, 1961, 2: 166, no. 892A**; 3: fig. 294 (as Ghirlandaio).

1964: Pouncey, Philip. Review of Bernard Berenson, I Disegni dei pittori Fiorentini. Master Drawings 2, no. 3 (Autumn 1964): 285.

2009: Bambach, Carmen. "Bernard Berenson's 'The Drawings of the Florentine Painters' Classified, Criticized, and studied as Documents in the History and Appreciation of Tuscan Art, with a copious Catalogue Raisonne, 1903." The Burlington Magazine 151, no. 1279 (October 2009): 696 n. 49 (as Ghirlandaio, but retouched).