The head of a bearded man c.1650

Black and white chalks on buff paper | 41.3 x 25.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906351

Italian School, Bolognese, 17th century

Description

A drawing of the head of an old bearded man, three-quarters left, his left hand to his cheek.
Identified by M. Calogero ('Drawing Tradition: Malvasia, Alfonso Lombardi and the use of models in Bologna', Master Drawings, LIX, 2021, pp. 193-208) to be drawn from a cast of the head of an apostle in Alfonso Lombardi's Death of the Virgin ensemble in Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna.
Calogero attributed the drawing to the school of Reni; the sheet comes from an album of drawings by the Sirani, and the handling of the chalk is closer to Elisabetta than to Reni.
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Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Black and white chalks on buff paper

Measurements

41.3 x 25.9 cm (sheet of paper)
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Object type(s)
visual works
drawings/watercolours
References

Other number(s)

K(B) : Kurz, O., 1955, reprinted 1988. Bolognese Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, Italy – K(B) 751

K(B) : Kurz, O., 1955, reprinted 1988. Bolognese Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, Italy – RL 6351

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