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 an Old Man Turned to the Left (Head of St. Joseph?)

Jacopo Bassano
approximately 1518-1592

Head of an Old Man Turned to the Left (Head of St. Joseph?)

ca. 1542-1543
5 7/16 x 5 1/16 inches (137 x 128 mm)
Black, red, and white chalk, red and white chalk wash, on blue paper.
1998.3

Gift of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed, on album page, at lower left, just beneath drawing, in pen and brown ink, "Tiziano Vecelli fece"; on verso of mount, at upper center, the number "65" has been inscribed in red chalk.
Associated names
Heinemann, Rudolf J., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 65.
Selected references: New York 1973, no. 27; Rearick 1986, no. 4; Bassano del Grappa and Fort Worth 1992- 93, no. 82; Rearick 2001, 116.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 27, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department