Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume
Framed: 21 x 23 3/16 x 1 3/8 inches (53.34 x 58.9 x 3.48 cm)
Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: From the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, The Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, October 18-November 18, 1979, unnumbered, as Head of a Venetian in Carnival Costume.
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 of Art 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. 42, as Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, unnumbered, as Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013.
With Richard Owen, Paris, by September 26–December 1, 1932 [1];
Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons (1883–1967), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] For more on Paris-based dealer Richard Owen (British, 1873–1946), see Danielle Hampton Cullen, “The Elusive Mr. Richard Owen: A Dealer’s Rise and Fall in the Art Market in the United States,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21, no. 2 (Summer 2022): https://doi.org/10.29411/ncaw.2022.21.2.5. See also letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art advisor to NAMA, to J. C. Nichols, NAMA Trustee, September 26, 1932, NAMA curatorial files.
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 Man.
Antonio Morassi, G.B. Tiepolo: His Life and Work (Oxford, UK: Phaidon Publishers, 1955), no. 45, p. 147, (repro.), as Head of an Old Oriental.
Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: From the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, exh. cat. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri-Columbia, 1979), unpaginated, as Head of a Venetian in Carnival Costume.
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), 191, (repro.), as Head of a Bearded Oriental with a Jeweled Headdress.
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), 141-43, (repro.), as Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume.
Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (Summer 1998): 2, (repro.), as Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume.
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), 99, (repro.), as Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume.
