Heads of Three Bearded Men

XVI century. White chalk, Pencil on grey paper.
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From their style, it is possible that these feeble studies may date from the beginning of the nineteenth century. The heads may derive from a painting or paintings by Tintoretto, but the prototype could also be Lombard, perhaps the work of one of the Campi, or their followers.

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Inventory number: D001813
Author: Attributed to Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto
Title: Heads of Three Bearded Men
Date: XVI century
Technique: White chalk; Pencil
Support: Grey paper
Dimension: Height: 270 mm; Width: 200 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931; I. Brun
Entry date: 1931

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Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 398.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 398.