Head of a Bearded Man

1579/1582

Federico Barocci

Artist, Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colored chalks on blue laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38 x 26.3 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

  • 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


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