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Head of a Bearded Old Man

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)  (German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg (Strassburg))

Artist:
Also attributed to Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt)
Date:
1500–1545
Medium:
Black chalk. Tacked down to paper mount.
Dimensions:
6 x 4 7/8 in. (15.2 x 12.4 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949
Accession Number:
49.116.1

This artwork is not on display

  • Provenance

    Donor: Mrs. John H. Wright

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Curjel 32

  • References

    A. Hyatt Mayor "Prints Acquired in 1949" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950, pp. 160, 163, ill.

    Hans Baldung Grien: Ausstellung unter dem Protektorat des I. C. O. M.. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1959, cat. no. 155, fig. no. 56a, pp. 78-79, ill.



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