Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra
Zurückgeneigter männlicher Kopf mit reiherstutzgeschmückter Mütze, 1655 - 1660
Closely cropped like the previous sheet (inv. no. 38506, cat, no. 23), this drawing has surely been removed from a larger context. Its most striking feature is the strictly geometric hatching that runs across the subject's forehead and suggests wide, interlocking zigzag lines.[1] Using only a few freely drawn outlines, the artist generated the figure primarily with vigorous layers of hatching of widely varying widths and intensities. Only the beard and the feather ornament were sketched in conformity with their shapes. Since Antonio del Castillo rarely utilized this sketching style, the attribution has been questioned; however, Benito Navarrete Prieto and Fuensanta García de la Torre included this work in their catalogue.
Jens Hoffmann-Samland
1. This technique is found in other Castillo drawings as well. See, for example, Navarrete Prieto and García de la Torre 2008, 441 (bottom), 447 (also with turban), 449 (somewhat looser), 453, and 539.
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Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso nummeriert: "70" (Bleistift, unterstrichen)
[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).
Antonio del Castillo, 1616-1668, Dibujos, Catálogo Razonado, Benito Navarrete Prieto, Fuensanta García de la Torre; Herausgeber: Fundacción Marcelino Botín, 2008, S. 462-463, Abb., 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. 78-79, Abb., 192, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 24
Die Spanischen Handzeichnungen in der Hamburger Kunsthalle zu Hamburg, August Liebmann Mayer, 1918, S. 117, Abb.-Nr.
Spanische Zeichnungen von El Greco bis Goya, Wolf Stubbe; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1966, S. 13, Abb. S. 44, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 83
The Drawings of Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Priscilla E. Muller; Herausgeber: Institute of Fine Arts, New York, New York University. Ann Harbor, 1963, S. 264, Abb. S. 91, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 133