Head of a Child Looking Left

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Title	Head of a Child Looking Left
Material and technique	Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 232 mm Width 182 mm
Artists	Draughtsman: Anoniem Circle of: Alessandro Casolani
Accession number	I 300 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1560-1600
Watermark	none (vV, 7P)
Inscriptions	'O.7' (verso, upper left, red chalk)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	G. Vallardi (L.1223, no. O 7), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance	Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863, L.1223/1223a)**, art dealer, Milan, his no. O 7; - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (Italian, 16th century); 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	Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Blue paper > Coloured paper > Paper > Vegetable material > Organic 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
Place of manufacture	Urbino > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Rosie Razzall

The artist who made this drawing of a child’s head in black and white chalks on blue paper is as yet unknown. The drawing was acquired in 1929 by Franz Koenigs without an attribution.^[1] According to a note on an earlier mount in an unknown hand, the drawing was previously stored alongside drawings by Federico Barocci (c.1535-1612). Barocci is well known for his drawings of heads in coloured chalks, but this head in two chalks can only be very loosely associated with his style. Other scholars have suggested an attribution to the followers of Domenico Beccafumi (c. 1486-1551) in Siena, such as Prospero Antichi, known as il Bresciano (d. 1599),^[2] or Alessandro Casolani (1552-1606).^[3]However this drawing is somewhat looser in execution than the child’s head studies by either of those artists. It is also made on blue paper, which is less typical for either of those artists.

Footnotes

^[1]‘Italienisch, 16. Jahrh.’, Lütjens c.1928-35, no. I 300.

^[2]E-mail correspondence with the museum, 19 May 2020. Compare with Athens/Gainesville/Siena 2002, no. 8a.

^[3]Suggestion by Albert Elen, based on a drawing sold at Christie’s, New York, 31 January 2013, lot 105.

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