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Jacopo Bassano
approximately 1518-1592
Head of an Old Man Turned to the Left (Head of St. Joseph?)
ca. 1542-1543
Black, red, and white chalk, red and white chalk wash, on blue paper.
5 7/16 x 5 1/16 inches (137 x 128 mm)
Gift of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
1998.3
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
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.
Provenance:
Unidentified collector (brown mark with letter M within an oval; Lugt 4975); Lore (1914-1996) and Rudolf J. (1901-1975) Heinemann, New York.
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.
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