About This Artwork
Head of a Bearded Manc. 1300
Limestone, traces of polychromy
21.6 x 36.8 cm, with base (8 1/2 x 14 /12 in.)
Gift of Chester D. Tripp Endowment, restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Albright, Mrs. Jerry Chambers, Mrs. Edgar Uihlein, Dr. and Mrs. Edwin de Costa, Mrs. Gerald Gidwitz, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Newberger, Mrs. Lorraine Pritzker, Mr. and Mrs. James Richter, and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Vale, 1982.26
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum, and Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Medieval Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, May 10–July 10, 1990, August 14–October 14, 1990.
Publication History
Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, 2001), pp. 15-16, no. 11.
Ownership History
Private collection, East Anglia, England, before 1981 [according to letter from D. G. F. Nickerson to Rita McCarthy, 27 August 1982, in curatorial file]. Mallett at Bourdon House, London, by 1981; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.