Head Study of a Bearded Man

Related Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)


Szépmûvészeti Museum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary

Object details

Title

Head Study of a Bearded Man

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

55.2 x 42.3 cm

Artist

Related artist

Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

Most recent published attribution

Workshop of Rubens [Van Hout 2020]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Szépmûvészeti Museum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary

Inv. no.

3835

Provenance

Probably in a Viennese private collection before 1828;
Gustav Ritter Hoschek von Mülheim (1847-1907), Prague, by 1890, and still in his collection, 1907;
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam;
from whom purchased by the museum, 1908.

Literature

Literature

Rooses 1886-92, IV, pp. 323-4, as Rubens;
Jaffé 1968, p. 367, as a copy by Jordaens after Rubens;
Jaffé 1989, pp. 252-3, under no. 454, as a copy by Jordaens after Rubens;
MFA Budapest 2000, p. 142, as Rubens;
Van Hout 2020, I, p. 185, under no. 67, as workshop of Rubens.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

3

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 37
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 102
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 43
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Date of investigation

25 October 2016

Dendro report no.

BU001/2020

Author

James Innes-Mulraine

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