Baccio Bandinelli
Italian, 1493-1560

Two Studies of the Head of a Youth, c. 1550

Pen and brown ink on tan paper, laid down on cream laid paper
238 x 255 mm
Helen Regenstein and Samuel A. Marx Endowments, 1996.606

McCullagh & Giles 703

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait," December 15, 1999-March 19, 2000.

Detroit Institute of Arts "The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," March 16-June 8, 2003, cat. 152; also traveled to Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, June 12-September 29, 2002, and The Art Institute of Chicago, November 9, 2002-February 2, 2003.

Publication History

Roger Ward, "New Drawings by Bandinelli and Cellini," Master Drawings 31 (1993), pp. 395-399 (ill.).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1997), no. 703 (ill.).

"A Selection of 1996 U.S. Museum Acquisitions," The Art Newspaper 67 (February 1997), p. 13 (ill.).

Ownership History

Eberhard Jabach (died 1695), Paris [Lugt suppl. 960a]. Sir Thomas Lawrence [Lugt 2445]. Howard Spensley, Sr., Westoning Manor, Bedfordshire (formerly Melbourne Australia) [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to Howard Spensley, Jr., to 1938 [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]; by descent to Ethel Spensely Fairchild, to 1959 [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. 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.