This drawing pictures the same head as the previous sheet (inv. no. 38484, cat. no. 86), and the artist employed the same technique. The horizontal crease at the level of the chin, which appears on both drawings, suggests either that they came from the same sheet of paper or were stored together and folded in the same way. However, the somewhat coarser hatching in this sheet more closely resembles the style of Francisco de Herrera the Elder. Still, the pen strokes in both Hamburg sheets are too varied to serve as the basis for a specific attribution.

Jens Hoffmann-Samland

Details about this work

• Label

  Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso unterhalb der Mitte nummeriert: "150" (Bleistift, unterstrichen)

• Provenance

  [José Atanasio Echeverría]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio/Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (from 1874 to 1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of the property of Frederick William Cosens (from November 11 to 21, 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London (from November 1890 to July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (July 14, 1891).

• Bibliography

  Spanish Drawings 1400-1600. A corpus of Spanish Drawings., Diego Angulo, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, 1975, S. 25, Abb.-Nr.

  The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, with contributions by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Gabriele Finaldi, José Manuel Matilla u. a., 2014, S. 216, Abb., Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 87

  Die Spanischen Handzeichnungen in der Hamburger Kunsthalle zu Hamburg, August Liebmann Mayer, 1918, S. 110-111, Abb.-Nr.

  A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, vol. III Seville School 1600 to 1650, Angulo Íñiguez and Pérez Sánchez; Herausgeber: Harvey Miller Publisher, 1985, S. 29, Abb. S. pl. XXVI, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 86