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.

Constructed Head of a Man in Profile. Verso: Head of a Man in Profile

Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528

Constructed Head of a Man in Profile. Verso: Head of a Man in Profile

ca. 1512-1513
9 9/16 x 7 7/16 inches (244 x 188 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash on paper; verso: pen and brown ink with traces of lead point, and squaring in red ink.
I, 257b

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist on verso, across neck, "4-7 teill"; inscribed by a later hand [von Lanna?] at lower right, "Samml[un]g Mitchell. / London. / Lippm. I, No. 88".
Watermark: Trident with a circle.
Associated names
Mitchell, William, former owner.
Lanna, Adalbert Franz Josef, Freiherr von, 1836-1909, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department