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Bust of a Bearded Old Man

Urs Graf  (Swiss, Solothurn ca. 1485–1529/30 Basel)

Date:
1521
Medium:
Pen and black ink
Dimensions:
sheet: 5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (14 x 10.4 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1997
Accession Number:
1997.19

This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed and dated lower right, in pen and black ink: "1521/VG" [in ligature with a dagger in place of the left-hand stroke in the letter V]

    Inscription: Verso: upper right, in pen and brown ink "No. 11"; in graphite 27.55, 50, 39, 22x29.

    Marking: Lower right, stamp or smear in black ink, perhaps a collector's mark (indecipherbale)

  • Provenance

    Rudolph Weigel (Leipzig); Edward Habich (German, 1818–1901 Kassel); H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, April 27-29, 1899, lot 320sale April 27-29, 1899 (possibly property of E. Habich); Eugène Rodrigues (Paris 1853-?1928); Thiebault Sisson (Paris); A. Strolin Collection (Lausanne); Private Collection, Switzerland

  • References

    Walter Lüthi Urs Graf und die Kunst der alten Schweizer. Zurich and Leipzig, 1928, cat. no. 185, fig. no. 76, p. 140, ill.

    Karl Theodore Parker 1992 "Die verstreuten Handzeichnungen Urs Grafs" Anzeiger fur schweizerische Altertumskunde. 23, Zurich, 1921, cat. no. 30, 214.

    "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1996-1997. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 2, 55, Fall 1997, p. 29, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 25 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. x, xiii (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens); p. 66, ill.



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