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Head of a Bearded Man

Anonymous, Bohemian, 14th century 

Date:
1360–80
Medium:
Pen and gray-brown ink, brush with gray-black and brown wash, traces of white gouache highlights.
Dimensions:
sheet: 4 7/16 x 3 3/8 in. (11.3 x 8.5 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2003
Accession Number:
2003.29

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

  • Provenance

    Vendor: Galerie Arnoldi-Livie (Munich)

  • References

    "Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2002-2003" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 61, no. 2, Fall 2003, p. 16, ill.

    Prague The Crown of Bohemia 1347 - 1437. Edited by Barbara Drake Boehm, Edited by Jiri Fajt, New York, 2005, cat. no. 34, p. 165, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 1 (entry written by George R. Goldner); p. x, xii (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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