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Head of an Old Man

Head of an Old Man

Artist/Maker (Flemish, 1577–1640)
Date1600–1605
MediumRed chalk, with opaque white lead paint applied with brush, with later additions of zinc white on paper
DimensionsSheet: 7 7/8 × 6 1/8 in. (20 × 15.6 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1943.229
Status
Not on view
More Information
This is one of many drawings by Rubens from his early years in Italy that directly copy, or are indirectly inspired by, the work of earlier artists. In this instance, Leonardo da Vinci's physiognomic studies of old men likely served as the model for Rubens's objective description of an old man's sagging flesh and grizzled hair.
Exhibition History
Loan Exhibition of Forty-Three Paintings by Rubens and Twenty-Five by Van Dyck
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (November 19, 1946 - December 22, 1946 )
Fashion or Function
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 10, 1950 - March 8, 1950 )
Tekeningen van P. P. Rubens
  • Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Holland (June 16, 1956 - September 2, 1956 )
The Century of Shakespeare
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 10, 1964 - April 30, 1964 )
Saving Face: The Portrait
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 5, 1986 - September 28, 1986 )
European Master Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 29, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
Collections
  • European
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