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Two Male Heads after the Antique, the Sons of Laocoön
Provenance
Sold by Max (Sándor) Hevesi (1894–1948), Vienna to I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam, 1929 [Inventory book: '845. t. Goltzius. 2 koppen']; by descent; sold, Christie’s, London, July 10, 2014, lot 23, to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibition history
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur: dessins flamands et hollandais de XVIe et XVIIe siècle, Nov. 25, 1976–Jan. 9, 1977, p. 36, no. 62, pl. 34; also Paris, Institut néerlandais, Jan. 20–Mar. 6, 1977; Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Mar. 19–30 Apr. 1977. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 101, 103 (ill.), 300, cat. 33, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
E.J.K. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius (Utrecht: Hantjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1961), vol. 1, p. 448, no. 422; vol. 2, pl. 441. Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Jean-René Gaborit, Alain Pasquier, eds., D’après l’antique, exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, 2000–01 (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000), p. 244, under cat. no. 78, pl. 78a.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hendrick Goltzius / Dutch, 1558–1617
- Date
- c. 1605
- Medium
- Red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16 × 25.2 cm (6 5/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 2014.983
More by Hendrick Goltzius in museum collections
A Nude Female Figure Fleeing to the Right with Arms Outstretched, with Sketch of a Bust of Secondary Figure (recto); A Sketch of a Nude, Kneeling Female Figure, Supported by Another Standing (verso)
Hendrick Goltziusc. 1600 (recto); 1598/99 (verso) · 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-00006149
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