Specifications
| Title | Head of a Man |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 277 mm Width 379 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
:
Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)
|
| Accession number | I 117 verso (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1520 |
| Watermark | none (vH, 6P) |
| Inscriptions | 'Jacono [?] Carucci, da Pontormo / élève d’Andr[é?] d[el] Sarte / 1490 1558' (verso, above left, pencil), 'Puntormo' (idem, lower right, pen and brown ink) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | Anonymous (part of a circle, dry stamp, not in Lugt); J. Richardson Sr. (L.2183); J. Spencer (L.1531); unidentified collection (blind stamp, standing oval, not in Lugt Online); E. Wauters (L.911); F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a) |
| Provenance | Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665-1745, L.2183)*, London; John Spencer (1708-1746, L.1532), Althorp; John 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783); John 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); his sale, London (Philipe) 10-17.06.1811, lot 709 (Andrea del Sarto, BP 0/7/0); #Anon. (not in Lugt); Emile Wauters (1846-1933, L.911), Paris; his sale, Amsterdam (Muller) 15-16.06.1926, lot 285 in lots 253-338 (Pontormo, Fl 170 to Ederheimer); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1926 (Pontormo); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
| Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1955, no. 235; Rotterdam/New York 1990, no. 64; Rotterdam 1997-98; Florence 2000, no. 6; Philadelphia 2004, no. 12; Rotterdam 2008, no. 38; Rotterdam 2010 (coll 2 kw 6); Paris 2014, no. 8; Rotterdam (Rondom Fra B.) 2016 |
| Research |
Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600 |
| Literature | Juynboll 1938, pp. 19-20, ill. p. 19 (recto: Pontormo); Hannema 1942, n.p., repr.; Amsterdam 1955, no. 235 (recto and verso: Pontormo); Berenson 1961, p. 517, no. 2368A-2, fig. 922 (Pontormo); Cox Rearick 1964, vol. 1, pp. 247-248, no. 255, p. 229, under cat. no. 218, vol. 2, fig. 240 (recto: Pontormo), and vol. 1, p. 248, no. 256 (verso: Pontormo); Forlani Tempesti 1967, p. 75 (recto: Pontormo); Cox Rearick 1981, vol. 1, pp. 247-248, no. 255, p. 195, under no. 172, p. 229, under no. 219, p. 247, under no. 254, vol. 2, fig. 240 (recto: Pontormo), and vol. 1, p. 248, no. 256, p. 195, under no. 172 (verso: Pontormo); Lebensztejn 1984, p. 70, fig. 9 (recto: Pontormo); Luijten/Meij 1990, no. 64, repr. (recto: Pontormo), and fig. d (detail verso) (Pontormo); Lebensztejn 1992, p. 104, fig. 8 (recto: Pontormo); Florence 2000, no. 6, repr. (recto: Pontormo); Philadelphia 2004, no. 12, repr. (recto: Pontormo); Rotterdam 2008, pp. 103 and 123, no. 38, repr. (recto: Pontormo); London/New York 2012, p. 79, under no. 11, n. 3 (Pontormo); Paris 2014, no. 7 (recto: Pontormo); Florence 2014b, p. 165 (Pontormo); Joannides 2015, pp. 100 and 112, n. 38, fig. 17 (recto: Pontormo); Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 106, under nos. 33/34, n. 9 (Pontormo) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
| Place of manufacture | Florence > Tuscany > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
