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Two Studies of the Head of a Youth
Provenance
Eberhard Jabach (died 1695), Paris [Lugt suppl. 960a]. Sir Thomas Lawrence [Lugt 2445]. Howard Spensley, Jr. (died 1938), from April 7, 1937 [Fiona Brown email dated August 25, 2008]; given to his sister Ethel Spensely Fairchild, to 1959 [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997 and Brown email]. John Brevant Gluckman [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Sold, Bonham’s, London, December 13, 1990, lot 52. Gry Izerslien, London [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Sold by Plato Investments to the Art Institute, 1996.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.. Art Institute of Chicago, "Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait," Dec. 15, 1999-Mar. 19, 2000. Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," Mar. 16-June 8, 2003, cat. 152; also the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, June 12-Sept. 29, 2002, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003. Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," Nov. 1, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015.
Publications
Roger Ward, "New Drawings by Bandinelli and Cellini," Master Drawings 31 (1993), pp. 395-399 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 398, no. 703 (ill.). "A Selection of 1996 U.S. Museum Acquisitions," The Art Newspaper 67 (February 1997), p. 13 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Baccio Bandinelli / Italian, 1493-1560
- Date
- c. 1550
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on tan paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.8 × 25.5 cm (9 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein and Samuel A. Marx Endowments
- Accession no.
- 1996.606
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Baccio Bandinelli1518–19 · Drawing
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-00005698
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