FJK 127
Van Der Goes Hugo (School of) (Netherlandish, Ghent, active by 1467–died 1482 Roode-Klooster)
Head of an Elderly Man (probably a Clergyman?)
1475-1500
4 49/64 × 3 17/64 – 3 15/32 in. (121 × 83//88 mm)
Medium
Silverpoint on prepared paper
Origin
Lt. Col. N.R. Colville Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Springell Collection, Portinscale (in 1953)
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 9, 1981, no. 62 (under follower of Hugo van der Goes)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 3231
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
Perspex, “Current shows and comments. The Master’s Work,” in Apollo, 58, September 1953, pp. 59-60, ill. (under Hugo van der Goes).
WINKLER Friedrich, Das Werk des Hugo van der Goes, Berlin, 1964, pp. 268, 270, fig. 209 (under “indeed an original by the artist”).
STERLING Charles, “Deux nouveaux dessins français du xve siècle,” in Ars auro prior, Studia loanni Bialostocki sexagenario dicata, Varsovie, 1981, pp. 212-14, ill. (under Jean Hey).
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, no. 239 ; ill. p. 22.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Flemish Art 1300-1700, 1953-1954, p. 136, no. 499 (under Hugo van der Goes).
London, P. and D. Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, 1959, no. 15, pl. III.
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, 1965, no. 1.
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 80, no. 33, color ill. p. 81.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 22, no. 5, color ill. p. 23.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 46, no. 9, color ill. p. 47.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 38, no. 8, color ill. p. 39.
Notes
Max J. Friedländer confirmed the attribution of this portrait to Hugo van der Goes in an undated letter to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London.
Request for information/loan
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