Head of a Bearded Man
1579/1582
Artist, Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

Artwork overview
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Medium
colored chalks on blue laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 38 x 26.3 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1991.182.16
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Paris (sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 9 March 1988, no. 153); (purchased by Kate Ganz Ltd., London); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 30 June 1989; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
Master Drawings 1500-1900, Kate Ganz Ltd, at Douwes Fine Art, London, 1989, no. 3, repro.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 32.
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1992, no. 10.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995-1996, no. 61, repro.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006-2007.
2012
Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2012-2013, cat. 8.8, repro.
2013
Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, National Gallery of Art, London, 2013, cat. 8.8, repro.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2017.
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019-2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1998
McGrath, Thomas. "Federico Barocci and the history of pastelli in central Italy." Apollo 148 (November 1998): 6, fig. 7.
2002
Verstegen, Ian Ferguson. "The Art of Painting and the Rhetoric of Persuasion." Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2002: 132.
Wikidata ID
Q64561229