Study for the Head of an Old Man
1610/15 | Peter Paul Rubens
Head studies of this monumental type were part of Rubens’s stock of images and were used in various compositions as models for Apostles, philosophers, Fathers of the Church, etc. This approach was in keeping with Rubens’s efficient and rapid method of work and had been in general use since the 16th century in Antwerp (e.g., by Frans Floris and Marten de Vos).
Head studies of this monumental type were part of Rubens’s stock of images and were used in various compositions as models for Apostles, philosophers, Fathers of the Church, etc. This approach was in keeping with Rubens’s efficient and rapid method of work and had been in general use since the 16th century in Antwerp (e.g., by Frans Floris and Marten de Vos).
Artist:
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 Siegen - 1640 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
1610/15
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Flemish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
stark beschnitten, rechts u. links angestückt: Overall: 67 cm × 56,5 cm
Framed (gallery frame): 78,2 cm × 61,1 cm × 7 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 522
Provenance
1691 Coll. Juan Gaspar Enríquez Alonso de Cabrera; acquired by the later Charles VI in 1705; 1730 documented in the gallery;