Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005585Study of the Head of a Bearded Man
Provenance
Abraham van Broyel; sold, Amsterdam, Oct. 30, 1759, kbk M no. 660. Sold, Amsterdam, Apr. 26, 1769, kbk F no. 1167. D. Vis-Blokhuyzen; sold, D. A. Lamme, Rotterdam, Apr. 29, 1872, lot 33. Sold, The Hague, Nov. 25, 1991, lot 38. Sold, Christie’s, Amsterdam, Nov. 15, 1993, lot 12. Sold by Haboldt & Co., Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.
Exhibition history
AIC: Print and Drawing Galleries: 8/4/94-1/31/95
Publications
Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565–1651: The Drawings, 2 vols. (Leiden: J. Bolten, 2007), vol I: p. 276, no. 813, vol II: p. 324 (ill).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Abraham Bloemaert / Dutch, 1566-1651
- Date
- 1595/1605
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and black chalk wash, heightened with opaque white watercolor, over touches of charcoal, on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 37.2 × 29 cm (14 11/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Robert I. and Leah C. Hamman and Prints and Drawings Purchase Funds
- Accession no.
- 1994.240
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