Head of an Acolyte
Framed: 24 5/16 × 19 3/4 × 1 inches (61.75 × 50.17 × 2.54 cm)
Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: From the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO, October 18-November 18, 1979, unnumbered, as Head of a Boy.
Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, September 12-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Head of an Acolyte.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 38, as Head of an Acolyte.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Head of an Acolyte.
Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 18-December 14, 2014, no cat., as Head of an Acolyte.
L. S. Hope, Angus House, North Berwick, East Lothian, UK, by 1930;
Purchased from Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian, Dutch and Flemish Schools, The Property of Miss L.S. Hope, Sotheby’s, London, November 5, 1930, lot 80, as Bust of a Youth holding a candlestick, profile to the left, by Savile Gallery, London, 1930;
With Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. 566, by July 25, 1932 [1];
Purchased from Durlacher Brothers, New York, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 1, Folder 10, "Details for New York Stock Book, July 25, 1932," copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Catalogue of Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian, Dutch and Flemish Schools, The Property of Miss L.S. Hope (London: Sotheby’s, November 5, 1930), 18, as Bust of a Youth holding a candlestick, profile to the left.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 67, (repro.), as Head of a Boy.
Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: From the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, exh. cat. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1979), unpaginated, as Head of a Boy.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Museum of Art, 1989), 7, 11, 43, (repro.), as Head of an Acolyte.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 185, (repro.), as Head of an Acolyte.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 11, 131-32, (repro.), as Head of an Acolyte.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 90, (repro.), as Head of an Acolyte.
