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Study Head of a Bearded Man
Frans Floris, I (Netherlandish, by 1520–1570)LinkedCulture matchlcp-129ccbdc36aa
- Date
- c. 1565
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 93372
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In the upper-left corner of this painting, just barely visible against the black background, a monogram reading FFF identifies the artist as Frans Floris, who operated a large and influential workshop in Antwerp. This panel served as a head study (possibly of Hercules), a technique Floris often used to work through expressions and characters for finished compositions. His practice anticipated the tronie —Dutch for “head”—studies popular in the 17th century among artists such as Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens .
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- Credit line
- Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader
- Provenance
- Hans Jüngeling, The Hague, by 1961 [according to van de Velde 1975, pp. 234–35; and conversation of Martha Wolff with Alfred Bader, May 24, 2001]; sold to Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, 1964; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 31, 1990, lot 32; bought by the Art Institute of Chicago with funds given by Alfred and Isabel Bader, 1990
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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