Head of a Man

Domenico Campagnola

Associated Names
Domenico Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

This drawing is a close-up view of a man's head and part of his neck. The man's head is turned to the right. He has a furrowed brow, a straight nose, a partially open mouth, and a thick, curly beard covering his lower face and chin. His hair is long and curly and seems to be flowing backward from his face. The drawing has been done in dark brown lines against plain, off-white paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 11.3 x 8.2 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
    support: 23.3 x 21.2 cm (9 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1971.17.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nathaniel Hone (Lugt 2793). Private collection (sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1969, no. 78); (Yvonne Tan Bunzl); NGA purchase in 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Old Master Drawings, Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, 1971, no. 12.

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 24B (as Attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo).

1976

  • Disegni di Tiziano e della suz cerchia, Cini Foundation, Venice, 1976, no. 54 (as Venetian, c. 1520)(Konrad Oberhuber).

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2003

  • "The Radiance of Apollo: the Italian Renaissance and Greece", National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004, no. 1412.

Bibliography

1976

  • Rearick, William R. Tiziano e il disegno veneziano del suo tempo. Florence, 1976: 95.

1979

  • Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Ancora su Domenico Campagnola: Una questione controversa." Arte veneta 33, 1979: 44, 49 (note 23).

1987

  • Wethey, Harold E. Titian and His Drawings withe Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 183, no. A-9, fig. 194.

2001

  • Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 214, note 80.

Wikidata ID

Q64541060

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