1949.2: Head of a Young Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.2

People

Hans Holbein the Younger, German (Augsburg, Germany 1497/98 - 1543 London, England)

Title

Head of a Young Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1523

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297479

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and gray ink and black, red, yellow, and white chalk, stumped, on cream antique laid paper, heavily restored

Dimensions

20.5 × 15.2 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso: Porträt U. von Hütten in seinem Todesjahr
• inscription: center top, chalk: 1523

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Wilhelm Koller, Vienna. Adalbert von Lanna, Prague [sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6-11, 1910, lot 298]. Max J. Bonn, London [sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, February 15, 1922, lot 28]. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Paul J. Sachs, "A Testimonial to my friend Felix M. Warburg"

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alfred Woltmann, Holbein und seine Zeichnungen (Leipzig, 1876), vol. II, pp. 149-150, no. 244
• Josef Schönbrunner and Joseph Meder, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, Gerlach & Schenk (Vienna, 1896-1908), vol. X, no. 1125
• Curt Glaser, Hans Holbein der Altere (Leipzig, 1908), p. 208, no. 234
• Katalog der berühmten sammlung des herrn barons Adalbert von Lanna in Prag: Volume II, Handzeichnungen alter meister und kupferstiche, etc., auct. cat., H. G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart, Germany, May 6 -11, 1910), no. 298
• Paul Ganz, Les dessins de Hans Holbein le jeune, F. Boissonnas (Geneva, 1921-1926), vol. 1, no. 8
• Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters, the Property of Max J. Bonn, Esq., Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London, February 15, 1922), lot 28
• Wilhelm Stein, Holbein der Jüngere (Berlin, 1929), p. 106, pl. 28
• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 32, repr.
• Edmund Schilling, Drawings by the Holbein Family, Art Book Publications (New York, 1939), p. XVII, pl. 32
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 386, fig. 196
• A.T. H., "Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art" [Review of Mongan-Sachs], Museums Journal (February 1948), vol. 47, no. 11, p. 218, p. 218
• Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d'Estampes. Marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques, etc... Supplément, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, 1956), p. 496
• Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 200
• William H. Gerdts and Elaine Evans Gerdts, Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., The Newark Museum (Newark, 1960), cat. no. 17, n.p., repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 13, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 27, n.p., pl. 27, repr.
• Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 142, repr.
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 262, pp. 224-225, repr.
• Florence Chantoury-Lacombe, "Le portrait en malade: histoire de sa face cachée", Intermédialités-Intermedialities (2006), no. 8, pp. 31-51, pp. 36, 38, fig. 3
• Christian Berco, From Body To Community, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Buffalo, 2016), front cover

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, 03/17/1960 - 05/22/1960
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
• Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986

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