Studies of the Head of a Woman and the Head of a Child

Previously attributed: Barocci (Federico Fiori) (in circa 1500-1600)

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Title	Studies of the Head of a Woman and the Head of a Child
Material and technique	Black and coloured chalks on discoloured blue paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 379 mm Width 261 mm
Artists	Previously attributed: Barocci (Federico Fiori) Draughtsman: Anoniem
Accession number	I 227 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1500-1600
Inscriptions	‘Corregio’ (lower left, red chalk), ‘3.’ (verso, above left, pen and ink), 'Guercino' (verso, centre, pencil, crossed out)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance	Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925), Galleria Simonetti, Rome (L.2288bis); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1928 from the Simonetti heir via art dealer Nicolaas Beets (manner of Fra Bartolomeo); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Red chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Klazina Botke

In the nineteenth century this anonymous work was in the collection of Galerie Simonetti in Rome, but when Koenigs acquired it in 1928 it was labelled as a study ‘in the style of Fra Bartolommeo’ (1473-1517). In 1953 Johan van Regteren Altena related it to the oeuvre of Federico Barocci (c.1535-1612), who hailed from Urbino.^[1] It is very possible that Van Regteren Altena was thinking of his known studies in coloured chalk, among them the head of a child in Amsterdam.^[2]After a visit to the museum in 1986, David Scrase, then Keeper of the Department of Paintings, Prints and Drawings of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, suggested an attribution to Giovanni da San Giovanni (1592-1636), while Aidan Weston-Lewis recently pointed out that pastel-like drawings were also made in Lombardy in imitation of Bernardino Luini (1480/1485-1532).^[3]Nor can it be ruled out that the artist could have come from the circles around Antonio da Correggio (Antonio Allegri, c.1489-1534) in Parma, given superficial points of agreement with a similar study (I 304) that is now attributed to Correggio’s circle in the museum’s collection.

Footnotes

^[1]Johan Quirijn van Regteren Altena, annotation on an old inventory card dated 13 May 1953.

^[2]Rijksmuseum, inv. RP-T-1981-30.

^[3]Observation on an old passe-partout by David Scarse in 1987; Aidan Weston-Lewis during an online expert meeting on 3 December 2021.

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