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Head of a Child Looking Left

Head of a Child Looking Left

Anoniem (in circa 1560-1600)

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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
Object
Technique
Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Place of manufacture Urbino > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Geographical origin 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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