Study of the Head of a Bearded Man with a Hat

Domenico Tintoretto (Domenico Robusti) (in circa 1580-1585)

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Title	Study of the Head of a Bearded Man with a Hat
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 120 mm Width 99 mm
Artists	Draughtsman: Domenico Tintoretto (Domenico Robusti) Previously attributed: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti) Previously attributed: Frans Floris (I)
Accession number	I 50 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1580-1585
Watermark	unidentifiable fragment, with a six-pointed star (on P5 of 5P, in top right corner, vV) [see image]
Inscriptions	'Gio[...]atta Maganza ritratto dal Tintoretto' (top edge, pen and brown ink, partly cut off), 'Effigies [...] del gran Titiano-' (verso, on a white attached strip of paper, pen and brown ink), 'I.T. no:12' (verso, pen and brown ink = L.2103a)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	Z. Sagredo (L.2103a) inv. I.T.no: 12; F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a deest)
Provenance	Zaccaria Sagredo (1653-1729, L.2103a, inv. 'I.T. no: 12'), Venice; - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1927 (Jacopo Tintoretto); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions	Amsterdam 1934, no. 681 (J. Tintoretto)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Amsterdam 1934, no. 681 (J. Tintoretto); Tietze/Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. A 1677 bis (not J. Tintoretto); Byam Shaw 1967, p. 48, no. 8, ill. (D. Tintoretto)
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	Venice > Veneto region > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

Judging from the old inscription at the top border, this little drawing was once considered a portrait of Giovanni Battista Maganza (c.1513-1586), who must be the Vicentine artist Maganza the elder and not his artistic grandson and namesake.^[1] The old attribution to Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), annotated in the collector Sagredo’s classification code - ‘I.T.’ standing for Iacopo Tintoretto - was decisively rejected by Tietze/Tietze-Conrat (1944) and much later replaced by a convincing one to his son Domenico, as an early work, by Byam Shaw (1967), who considers the drawing ‘excellent’ and ‘decidedly Tintorettesque’.

The only known portrait of Giovanni Battista Maganza senior is an anonymous Italian 17th-century engraving, inscribed with his Christian name and his alias Magagnò.^[2]In fact this is a posthumous portrait, probably derived from a lost painting, of a younger man, so the facial idiosyncrasies are far from accurate, the only resemblance being that he also wears a hat and has a beard, though trimmed. For lack of a better portrait of Maganza, an identification of the man in the Rotterdam drawing therefore remains uncertain.

Footnotes

^[1] G.B. Maganza senior was a distinguished portrait painter, as well as a poet, and father of the artist Alessandro Maganza, a prolific draftsman, well represented in the drawings collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Tietze/Tietze-Conrat (1944) noted that it might be a portrait of G.B. Maganza junior, but Byam Shaw (1976) rightly pointed out that he died young, around forty years old, and the man in the drawing looks much older, in his seventies.

^[2] The print belongs to a series of portraits of famous Italian painters by the Monogrammist IP; a copy of this engraving is in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. RP-P-1907-285. This print was reproduced in mirror image in the 1837 edition of Carlo Ridolfi’s Le maraviglie dell’arte […], heading the biography of Maganza senior (vol. 2, pp. 454-457).

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