Studies of a Man's Head and of His Hands

Federico Barocci  (Italian, Urbino ca. 1535–1612 Urbino)

Date:
1592–99
Medium:
Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk and touches of red chalk, on blue-gray paper
Dimensions:
11 x 16-1/4 in. (28 x 41.3 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1950
Accession Number:
50.143
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Marking: Collectors' marks: (lower right) (J. S., mark of John, Earl Spencer of Althorp. Lugt 1530); LL (Lionel Lucas).

  • Provenance

    Collection of Earls Spencer (Althorp); Thomas Philipe (British, 1740-1816), June 10-17, 1811, part of no. 22; Lionel Lucas (British, 1822–1862 London); Claude Lucas (British), British; Christie's, London, December 9, 1949, no. 54Lucas sale, London, December 9 1949, no. 54.

  • References

    Frits Lugt Les marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes. Marques estampillés et écrites de collections particulières et publiques. Marques de marchands, de monteurs, et d'imprimeurs. Cachets de vente d'artistes décédés. Marques de graveurs apposées.... Amsterdam, 1921, cat. no. no. 1530.

    Harald Olsen "Federico Barocci, A Critical Study in Italian Cinquecento Painting" Figura. Figura, Stockholm, 1955, cat. no. no. 53, p. 158.

    Marilyn Aronberg Lavin "A Late Work by Barocci". May, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May, 1955, fig. no. p. 271, pp. 267-68, ill.

    Harald Olsen Federico Barocci. Copenhagen, 1962, fig. no. pl. 92a, pp. 82, 203, ill.

    Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Graphic Society, New York, 1964, cat. no. 24, fig. no. 24, ill.

    Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. I: The Italian Renaissance. exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1, New York, 1965, cat. no. 119, fig. no. pl. 119, p. 70, ill.

    Cleveland Museum of Art The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1978, cat. no. no. 64, fig. no. no. 64, ill.

    Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1982, cat. no. 22, fig. no. 22, p. 35, ill.

    Irene Brückle "Blue-Colored Paper in Drawings" Drawing. vol. 15, no. 4, November-December 1993, fig. no. fig. 1, pp. 73, 76, ill.



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