Head of a Man, early 1620s

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Finaldi 2016, no. 11

Accession Number

1984.41.1

Artists / Makers

Jusepe de Ribera (artist) Spanish, 1591 - 1652

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Tunick, Inc., David

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.