Two Studies of the Head of a Youth

Provenance

Eberhard Jabach (died 1695), Paris [Lugt suppl. 960a]. Sir Thomas Lawrence [Lugt 2445]. Howard Spensley, Jr. (died 1938), from April 7, 1937 [Fiona Brown email dated August 25, 2008]; given to his sister Ethel Spensely Fairchild, to 1959 [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997 and Brown email]. John Brevant Gluckman [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Sold, Bonham’s, London, December 13, 1990, lot 52. Gry Izerslien, London [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Sold by Plato Investments to the Art Institute, 1996.

Two Studies of the Head of a Youth

Baccio Bandinelli

c. 1550

Accession Number

145830

Medium

Pen and brown ink on tan paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Dimensions

23.8 × 25.5 cm (9 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Regenstein and Samuel A. Marx Endowments