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Head of a Bearded man

Head of a Bearded man

Federico Zuccaro (in circa 1550-1600)

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Title Head of a Bearded man
Material and technique Black and red chalk
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 81 mm
Width 61 mm
Artists Follower of: Federico Zuccaro
Previously attributed: Taddeo Zuccaro
Accession number DN 166/63 (PK)
Credits Gift Dr A.J. Domela Nieuwenhuis, 1923
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1923
Creation date in circa 1550-1600
Inscriptions 'Portrait von Hans Sachs / Meister ?' (verso, centre, pencil), 'Hans Sachs / 166/63 / XVII J[ahrhundert] / B Jolles' (verso, lower edge, potlood)
Collector Collector / Adriaan Domela Nieuwenhuis
Provenance Boguslaw Jolles (-1912, L.381 deest), Dresden/Vienna; his sale, Munich (Helbing) 28.10.1895, lot 182 (German, 17th century, DM 10); Dr. Adriaan J. Domela Nieuwenhuis (1850-1935, L.356b), Munich/Rotterdam, donated with his collection in 1923 (Anonymous German, 17th century)
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Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Surya Stemerding

The subject of this small drawing is an elderly man, balding but with a full beard, looking off to his left. Despite the diminutive size of the sheet, the man’s features have been recorded precisely. The sheet was included in the Jolles sale of 1895 as an anonymous German portrait of the poet and playwright Hans Sachs (1494-1576), but it bears no resemblance to any of the known portrait prints of him.

The drawing bore the name of Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566) for a long time after the sale, but none of his portraits are in a comparable style.[1] It is more likely that it was made by a follower of Taddeo’s brother Federico Zuccaro (c.1539/1543-1609). The combination of black and red chalk for the flesh tones is typical of Federico’s drawn oeuvre, and was widely imitated.[2] It is true, though, that his portrait drawings usually have more clearly defined parallel hatching and a more pronounced physiognomy.

Footnotes

[1] Until 1966. J.Q. van Regteren Altena described it as ‘circle of one of the Zuccari!’, as recorded in an annotation on the mount by curator Bram Meij.

[2] D. Graf, ‘Porträtstudien Federico Zuccaris’, in Winner/Heikamp 1993, pp. 43-81.

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