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Title:Head of a Bearded Old Man
Artist:Attributed to Wolfgang Huber (German, Feldkirch/Vorarlberg ca. 1485/90–1553 Passau)
Artist: Formerly attributed to Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) (German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg)
Artist: Formerly attributed to Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt)
Date:1520s
Medium:Black chalk. Tacked down to paper mount.
Dimensions:6 x 4 7/8 in. (15.2 x 12.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949
Object Number:49.116.1
Mrs. John H. Wright
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 6, 1997–January 4, 1998.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," September 11–December 4, 2000.
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A. Hyatt Mayor "Prints Acquired in 1949." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950, p. 160, ill. p. 163, as a study by Baldung for a woodcut (1949,0411.116).
Hans Baldung Grien: Ausstellung unter dem Protektorat des I. C. O. M. Ex. cat. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1959, cat. no. 155, pp. 78-79, ill. fig. 56a, as by Baldung.
Peter Halm "Die Hans-Baldung-Grien-Ausstellung in Karlsruhe 1959" in Kunstchronik. vol. 13, no. 5, May 1960, p. 130, as by Hans Sebald Beham.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Hans Baldung Grien: Prints & Drawings. James H. Marrow, Alan Shestack, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven and Washington, 1981, cat. no. 57, pp. 225-27, ill., as by Baldung (but not a study for the woodcut).
Köpfe der Lutherzeit. Werner Hofmann, Munich, 1983, cat. no. 83, pp. 194-95, ill., as after Wolf Huber (entry by Gisela Hopp).
Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung des Kurfürsten Carl Theodor: Ausstellung zum 225 jährigen Bestehen der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München. Holm Bevers, Munich, 1983, under cat. no. 109, pp. 89-90, as attributed to Hans Sebald Beham and prefiguring Huber.
Gert von der Osten Hans Baldung Grien, Gemälde und Dokumente. Berlin, 1983, under cat. no. 30, pp. 121-22, as by Baldung.
Peter Prange Deutsche Zeichnungen, 1450-1800. 2 vols., Cologne, Weimer, and Vienna, 2007, under cat. no. 402, pp. 191-2, as circle of Wolf Huber.
Erwin Pokorny "A Drawing in the Metropolitan Museum Reattributed from Hans Baldung to Wolf Huber" in Master Drawings. vol. 59, no. 4, Winter 2021, pp. 438-440, note 13, ill. p. 440, fig. 9, as attributed to Wolf Huber.
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