Head of a Man

early 1620s

Jusepe de Ribera

Artist, Spanish, 1591 - 1652

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 17.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
    mount: 30.5 × 24.4 cm (12 × 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.41.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Finaldi 2016, no. 11


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christies, London 3 April 1984); acquired by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

2017

  • Between Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de RIbera, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2017.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2018 - 2019, no cat.

Bibliography

1995

  • Finaldi, Gabriele. "Aspects of the life and work of Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652." PhD. diss., The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1995, no. 151.

2005

  • Finaldi, Gabriele. "Dibujos inéditos y otros poco conocidos de Jusepe de Ribera."Boletin del Museo del Prado 23, no. 41 (2005): 24-44.

2016

  • Finaldi, Gabriele, et al.Jusepe de Ribera: The Drawings, Catalogue raisonné. Madrid, 2016, no. 11.

Inscriptions

recto: on faded blue paper mount, in later hand, across bottom in graphite: G. Ribera.(Sketch by "Spagnoletto"; on mount, in later hand, at bottom left in graphite: 47/294 G Ribera (le Spagnoletto); on mount, in later hand, at bottom right in graphite: 41; verso: on mount, in later hand, written along lower right edge in graphite: Sotheby Sale April 3-14

Markings

none

Watermarks

partial fleur de lis on laid backing sheet

Wikidata ID

Q64591742


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