Art Institute of Chicago
Bust of a Warrior
Hendrick GoltziusLinkedCulture matchlcp-6b28e43172af
- Date
- 1586/88
- Medium
- Black chalk, with red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, ruled with pen and black ink, on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 243885
Netherlandish artists like Hendrick Goltzius studied Classical antiquity to understand the ideal representation of the human face and body. They also turned to Classical inspirations to develop their own imaginative repertoire, as reflected in this rendering of a warrior.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Provenance
- Robert Lebel, Paris; sold, Sotheby's, Paris, Mar. 25, 2009, lot 41a, to Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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