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Study Head of a Bearded Man
Inscriptions
Inscribed upper left: FFF
Publications
Giorgio T. Faggin, La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento (Florence, 1968), p. 49, fig. 125. Carl van de Velde, Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Leven en Werken (Brussels, 1975), pp. 234–35, no. 87, fig. 36. Art Insitute of Chicago Annual Report 1990-91 (1991), 19, 43 (ill.). Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, (Antwerp, 1992), p. 335, no. 236 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frans Floris, I (Netherlandish, by 1520–1570)
- Date
- c. 1565
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 46.5 × 33.6 cm (18 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 58.5 × 6.4 cm (28 × 23 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 16th Century
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader
- Accession no.
- 1990.557
Provenance
Hans Jüngeling, The Hague, by 1961 [according to van de Velde 1975, pp. 234–35; and conversation of Martha Wolff with Alfred Bader, May 24, 2001]; sold to Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, 1964; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 31, 1990, lot 32; bought by the Art Institute of Chicago with funds given by Alfred and Isabel Bader, 1990
More by Frans Floris, I in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001362
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