Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Head of Bearded Man Wearing a Cap, in Profile to the Left. Verso: Head of a Young Man, in Profile to the Right

Vittore Carpaccio
1455?-1525?

Head of Bearded Man Wearing a Cap, in Profile to the Left. Verso: Head of a Young Man, in Profile to the Right

1490-1500
10 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches (265 x 185 mm)
Black chalk, brown wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, on blue paper; verso: black chalk, brown wash, lead white opaque watercolor.
I, 54 (recto)

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Associated names
Bonfiglioli, Silvestro, 1637-1696, former owner.
Bonfiglioli, Bartolomeo, former owner.
Sagredo, Zaccaria, 1653-1729, former owner.
Udny, John, 1727-1800, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 56.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: nos. 54-55; van Marle 1923-38, 18:350n1; Hadeln 1925, 40; Fiocco 1930, 68; New London 1936, no. 15; Toledo 1940, no. 77; Northampton 1941, no. 3; Mongan 1942, 94; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, under A600, and no. 627; Lauts 1962, no. 38; Muraro 1966, 110; Stockholm 1970, no. 30; Muraro 1977, no. 555; Sgarbi 1994, 232; White 1994, 1:100, 102-3; Rearick 2002, 46; Munich 2008-9, no. 6.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 54 and 55, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 6, repr. [Rhode Eitel-Porter]
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department