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Nov 11, 2011

Head of an Old Woman

c. 1500

Hans Holbein

(German, c. 1465–1524)

Germany, late 15th-early 16th Century

Silverpoint; traces of framing lines in graphite

Support: Laid paper prepared with a gray ground laid down on cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 6.6 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.); Secondary Support: 6.6 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.14

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not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in graphite: L#. [2..h?] ; center, in black chalk: SAS [in ligature, collectors mark, see provenance] ; center right, in graphite: eÿck 30 ; VERSO OF FRAGMENT OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), at left, in graphite: W. Hollar ; upper left, in graphite: B ; center, in graphite: [illegible]

Provenance

Unidentified collector (Lugt 178c (possibly Count Sparr, late 18th century Swedish Ambassador to England), verso of secondary support, inscribed in graphite). Mrs. E. Zwicky, Basel- Arlsheim (according to departmental cataloguing sheet); J. W. Zwicky (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). [Paul Drey Gallery, New York]

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 127 archive.org

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

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