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Head of a Papal Guard

Netherlandish School
16th century

Head of a Papal Guard

5 7/8 x 4 7/16 inches (148 x 113 mm)
Silverpoint on light gray prepared ground, with opaque white, on laid paper.
I, 261

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in an old Italian hand, in brown ink, but crossed out, "Maestri D ... / Libro de Disegni fatto dal ..."; in another old Italian hand, "Cas ... f ... ggo d ... Ca / ...".
Associated names
Beham, Barthel, 1502-1540, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Skene, George, former owner.
Habich, Edward, 1818-1901, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 9, no. 12, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 261, repr. (ascribed to Barthel Beham)
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department