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Study Head of a Bearded Man
Frans Floris, I · c. 1565
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Giorgio T. Faggin, La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento (Florence, 1968), p. 49, fig. 125.
- Carl van de Velde, Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Leven en Werken (Brussels, 1975), pp. 234–35, no. 87, fig. 36.
- Art Insitute of Chicago Annual Report 1990-91 (1991), 19, 43 (ill.).
- Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, (Antwerp, 1992), p. 335, no. 236 (ill.).
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