Two Studies of the Head of a Youth

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1550

Baccio Bandinelli
Italian, 1493-1560

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Artist: Baccio Bandinelli
Title: Two Studies of the Head of a Youth
Origin: Italy
Date: 1545–1555
Medium: Pen and brown ink on tan paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 238 × 255 mm
Credit Line: Regenstein and Samuel A. Marx Endowments
Reference Number: 1996.606

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: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 398, no. 703 (ill.).
“A Selection of 1996 U.S. Museum Acquisitions,” The Art Newspaper 67 (February 1997), p. 13 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997..
Art Institute of Chicago, “Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait,” Dec. 15, 1999-Mar. 19, 2000.
Detroit Institute of Arts, “The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence,” Mar. 16-June 8, 2003, cat. 152; also the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, June 12-Sept. 29, 2002, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection,” Nov. 1, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015.

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.

McCullagh & Giles 703

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