Head of a Bearded Man, looking right, ca. 1523 – 1525 ?

Title

Head of a Bearded Man, looking right

Draughtsman

• Parmigianino

Production Place

• Rome

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• High Renaissance
• Italian Mannerism

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Red chalk on ribbed laid paper

Material

• red chalk
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Parmesan

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• portrait study?

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten rechts (von fremder Hand?, mit der Feder in Braun): Parmiamanino
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Work Catalogues

• Gnann I.394.284
• Popham I.80.138

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• portrait

Main Motif

• man

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Bernardino Campi

Primary

• 61B111(+512) anonymous historical person portrayed alone (+ three-quarter view portrait)
• 31D16 old man

Secondary

• 31A534 beard

Alternative Attribution

• Bernardino Campi ? draughtsman; by note on mount
• Bernardino Campi draughtsman; declined, by note on mount