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Bust of a Warrior
Inscriptions
Signed recto, center right: "HG"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: illegible name over "(1588–1616)"; center, in graphite: "got"; right, in graphite: illegible word
Provenance
Robert Lebel, Paris; sold, Sotheby's, Paris, Mar. 25, 2009, lot 41a, to Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 138, 142 (ill.), 299, cat. 43, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hendrick Goltzius / Dutch 1558-1617
- Date
- 1586/88
- Medium
- Black chalk, with red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, ruled with pen and black ink, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 14 × 9.8 cm (5 9/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.849
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-00006186
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