Study of the Head of a Bearded Man

Prints and Drawings

1595/1605

Abraham Bloemaert
Dutch, 1566-1651

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Abraham Bloemaert
Title: Study of the Head of a Bearded Man
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1595–1605
Medium: Black chalk, with brush and black chalk wash, heightened with opaque white watercolor, over touches of charcoal, on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 37.2 × 29 cm (14 11/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Robert I. and Leah C. Hamman and Prints and Drawings Purchase Funds
Reference Number: 1994.240
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Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565–1651: The Drawings, 2 vols. (Leiden: J. Bolten, 2007), vol I: p. 276, no. 813, vol II: p. 324 (ill).

AIC: Print and Drawing Galleries: 8/4/94-1/31/95

Abraham van Broyel; sold, Amsterdam, Oct. 30, 1759, kbk M no. 660. Sold, Amsterdam, Apr. 26, 1769, kbk F no. 1167. D. Vis-Blokhuyzen; sold, D. A. Lamme, Rotterdam, Apr. 29, 1872, lot 33. Sold, The Hague, Nov. 25, 1991, lot 38. Sold, Christie’s, Amsterdam, Nov. 15, 1993, lot 12. Sold by Haboldt & Co., Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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