FJK 129

Veronese (Caliari Paolo) (Italian, Verona 1528–1588 Venice)

Head and Hands Study

ca. 1585
5 15/64 × 8 11/32 in. (133 × 212 mm)

Medium
Charcoal with white highlights on bluish paper

Numbered in pen on the back: 509

Origin

Sagredo Collection, Venice
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, June 25, 1970, no. 6 (under circle of Veronese)
A. Mathews Collection (cat. 76, no. 3)
Clifford Collection
His sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 3, 1989, no. 41 (under attributed to Paolo Caliari, called Paolo Veronese)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 4796
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

COCKE Richard, Veronese’s Drawings. A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1984, p. 299, 316, no. 142, ill. (under attributed to Veronese).

REARICK W. R., “Black Chalk Drawings by Paolo Veronese,” in Master Drawings, XXX-2, 1992, p. 170, note 4, pp. 143, 170 (under Veronese).

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 419, ill.

RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 419, ill.

Exhibitions

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 106, no. 37, color ill. p. 107.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 96, no. 40, color ill. p. 97.