FJK 040
School of Cologne
Bust of Man with Hands Crossed
ca. 1550
6 19/64 × 5 19/32 in. (160 × 142 mm)
Medium
Silverpoint on wove paper
Hardly legible outlines of an armoiry upper right corner
Origin
Franz W. Koenigs Collection, Cologne and Haarlem (1881-1941)
Private Collection (by descent)
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Old Master and Modern Drawings and Prints from the Franz Koenigs Collection, January 23, 2001, no. 7
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5872
Jan Krugier Foundation
Notes
This drawing is close to portrait paintings done in the tradition of Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder and his son, both of whom were active in Cologne in the 16th Century (see H. Westhoff-Krummacher, Barthel Bruyn der Altere, Munich 1965).
Sotheby’s, Old Master and Modern Drawings and prints form the Franz Koenigs Collection, New York, January 2001 (extract from)
Request for information/loan
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