About This Artwork

Frans Floris
Netherlandish, 1519/20-1570

Study Head of a Bearded Man, c. 1565

Oil on panel
18 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (46.5 x 33.6 cm)
Inscribed upper left: FFF
Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 1990.557

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Giorgio T. Faggin, La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento (Florence, 1968), p. 49, fig. 125.

Carl van de Velde, Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Leven en Werken (Brussels, 1975), pp. 234–35, no. 87, fig. 36.

Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, (Antwerp, 1992), p. 335, no. 236 (ill.).

Ownership History

Hans Jüngeling, The Hague, by 1961 [according to van de Velde 1975, pp. 234–35; and conversation of Martha Wolff with Alfred Bader, May 24, 2001]; sold to Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, 1964; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 31, 1990, lot 32; bought by the Art Institute of Chicago with funds given by Alfred and Isabel Bader, 1990