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Drawn, monochromatic portrait of a man with a curled beard and turban atop his head.

Drawn, monochromatic portrait of a man facing to the left. His face is serious and unsmiling. His beard and mustache are light in color and curl towards the edges. The man wears a large, rounded turban atop his head with an object set in the middle. Four visible stripes emerge from the middle object and wrap around the turban. A small amount of cropped hair escapes from the turban, curling out around the edges of the man's face and the nape of his neck.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.124
People
Hans Burgkmair the Elder, German (Augsburg 1473 - 1531 Augsburg)
Title
Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban
Other Titles
Former Title: Head of a Bearded Oriental
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1520
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297781

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
23.9 x 17.5 cm (9 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Andréossy Collection. Eugène Rodrigues (Lugt 897), Paris, sold [through Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, July 12-13, 1921, lot 14]. Henry Oppenheimer, London, by 1926, [1] sold [through Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 362]; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.]; to The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1936, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Notes
[1] Listed as part of Oppenheimer's collection in "Drawings of the Early German Schools," K. T. Parker, 1926

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.124
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue d'une Vente Importante de Dessins Anciens, Collection R..., de Paris, Principalement des Écoles des Pays-Bas et de l'Allemagne, auct. cat., Frederik Muller & Cie. (Amsterdam, July 12-13, 1921), Vol I., p. 4, lot no. 14; Vol. 2, repr. as pl. VI
  • Dr. K. T. Parker, Drawings of the Early German Schools, Robert M. McBride & Company (New York, 1926), p. 31, no. 37, repr.
  • Dr. K. T. Parker, "Weiteres Über Hans Burgkmair als Zeichner", Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Kunst, Dr. Benno Filser Verlag G. M. B. H. (Augsburg, 1928), Band II, pp. 208-223, p. 220, no. 25
  • Charles Holmes, "Henry Oppenheimer--a Collector and his Ways", The London Studio (September 1936), vol. XII, no. 66, pp. 115-134, pp. 120-121, repr. p. 121
  • Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1936 - July 14, 1936), lot 362, pl. 80
  • Agnes Mongan, "A Gift of Old Master Drawings", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1937), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 22-34, pp. 32-34, repr. p. 34 as fig. 10
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 375, fig. 190
  • Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), p. 70, no. 35, repr. as pl. 32
  • James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pp. 132-133, repr. p. 133
  • 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. 201
  • Peter Halm, "Hans Burgkmair als Zeichner", Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst (1962), Folge Band XIII, pp. 75-162, p. 144 and n. 164
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 42
  • Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, pp. 129-130, repr. p. 129 as fig. 2
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 31 under "Charcoal"
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 25, p. 27

Exhibition History

  • German Old Masters Prints and Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 05/08/1950 - 06/22/1950
  • Art of the Northern Renaissance, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/13/1967 - 04/01/1967
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
  • 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
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/18/2024 - 08/18/2024

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