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Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471–1528
Head of a Young Man
1503
Medium
metalpoint and pen and brown ink heightened with white on gray prepared paper
Dimensions
Overall: 8 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. (22.3 x 18.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.1835
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Image Caption
Albrecht Dürer, Head of a Young Man, 1503, metalpoint and pen and brown ink heightened with white on gray prepared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1835
Select Bibliography
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.
Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Dürer in America: His Graphic Work. April 25-July 6, 1971. Cat. by G. F. Ravenel and J. A. Levenson.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Tribute to Albrecht Dürer. Exhibition checklist. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1971.
Moritz Thausing.. Dürer, Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Kunst.. Leipzig: E. A. Seeman.. 1876..
Ephrussi, Charles. Albrecht Dürer et ses dessins. Paris: A. Quantin, 1882.
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Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. 2 volumes. Princeton University Press, 1945.
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Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Checa, Fernanado. Durero y Cranach: arte y humanismo en la Alemania del Renacimiento. Exhibition catalogue. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2007.
Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.
Provenance
Count Nils Barck (L. 1959, without flanking rows of dots);* Count Adolphe Thibaudeau (sale Paris, April 20–25, 1857, no. 270); W. Coningham (L. 476, dry-stamp at bottom right); F. Locker-Lampson (L. 1692, in blue ink; sale London, Christie, December 20, 1918, no. 140, to Colnaghi {provenance: "From the Collections of Crozart (sic); Comte de Tessin; Louise Ulrique de Suède; Comte Steinbock (sic); Comte de Barck and Adolphe Thibaudeau"}); Colnaghi, London; (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1923). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956. According to the Locker-Lampson sale catalogue (no. 140) and F. Lugt (Marques des collections, I, Amsterdam, 1921, p. 305, under no. 1692), the drawing was previously in the collections of Crozat and Tessin (in that case it passed from Tessin to Queen Louisa Ulrica of Sweden to Princess Sophia Albertina, to Sount Stenbock Sr., to Count Stenbock, Jr., and finally to Count Barck, cf. Lugt, under no. 1959). However, the drawing is not specifically mentioned in the catalogue of the Crozat Sale, Paris, 1741, and this early provenance therefore cannot be verified. Since the Locker-Lampson sale catalogue does not mention Coningham among the previous owners, we suspect that Coningham's dry-stamped C (L. 476) was identified erroneously as a collector's mark of Crozat. The reason for including Tessin remains unknown.
