Eight studies of male heads (after Albrecht Dürer)
Drawing
late 16th - early 17th century (hand drawn)
late 16th - early 17th century (hand drawn)
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Study of eight male heads; The two lower ones represent old men; Reed pen and bistre, on paper.
Object details
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| Title | Eight studies of male heads (after Albrecht Dürer) (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink; the iron-gall ink has corroded through the paper in the right cheek of the head at bottom left. Inscribed in brown ink: at upper right, …<i>hey</i>…(?) (trimmed); and at lower right (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), <i>505</i>. Inscribed on plain old Dyce mount, in pencil: at lower right, by Dyce,<i> L. Cranach</i>; and above this, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), <i>202</i> (crossed through). |
| Brief description | Gheyn, Jacques de (II); Study of eight male heads (after Albrecht Dürer); The two lower ones represent old men; Reed pen and bistre, on paper; Flemish School; Late 16th - early 17th century. |
| Physical description | Study of eight male heads; The two lower ones represent old men; Reed pen and bistre, on paper. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Provenance: possibly unidentified eighteenth-century collector (‘een voornaam liefhebber uit Saxen’), Saxony, possibly his sale, Amsterdam, de Winter ... IJver, 26 April 1769, Album F, lot 1170: ‘Twee Stuks met acht Hoofden op een blad, met de Pen, door J. de Gheyn’; Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
| Production | Has previously been erroneously ascribed to Lucas Cranach. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. I, cat.65, pp.111-12 |
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| Accession number | DYCE.505 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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