FJK 024
Carracci Agostino (Italian, Bologna 1557–1602 Parma)
Head of A Young Man
1580-1590
9 7/8 × 7 23/64 in. (251 × 187 mm)
Medium
Red chalk on paper with diagonally cut angles
Watermak unlisted by Briquet
Origin
P. & D. Colnaghi, London
Reverend R. A. Bagley Collection, Cambridge and London (acquired in November 1958)
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 4, 1985 (£ 30'000)
Ian F. L. Duncan Collection, Shropshire
On loan to the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1985–2001
Dr. Peter Dreyer Collection, New York et Munich (previous director of the Drawings Department at the Pierpont Morgan Library)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner on February 20, 2002), JK 6009
Jan Krugier Foundation
Exhibitions
Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Exhibition of 17th Century Italian Drawings, Catalogue by Carlos van Hasselt, 1959, no. 18 (under Agostino Carracci).
Edinburgh, The Merchant’s Hall, Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969, no. 21 (under Agostino Carracci).
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, Addendum, no. 8, color ill.
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. 98, no. 41, color ill. p. 99.
Notes
This drawing in red chalk is close to the self-portrait preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (R. Wittkower, The Drawings of the Carracci, London, 1952, p. 122, no. 164, pl. 22, Acc. no. 2246), and to the drawing at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (A. Mongan, P. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard, 1946, vol. I, p. 122, no. 231; vol. II, pl. 121 under Annibale Carracci). The strong outlines of the facial features could indicate that this drawing was made for a print or transfer on tracing paper.
Anonymous author (translated from French)
Request for information/loan
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