{"type":"artobject","objectid":40958,"objectnumber":"2002-97","sortnumber":"2002 97","displaytitle":"Studies of Male Head in Profile","department":"Prints and Drawings","classification":"Drawings","datebegin":1617,"dateend":1627,"datecomputed":1622,"daterange":"A.D. 1600-1700","displaydate":"ca. 1622","medium":"Red chalk","dimensions":"25.1 x 20.6 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund","markings":"Stamp in black ink, lower right: PM [in oval] [Lugt 3561]","inscribed":"in brown ink, lower right: Spaenioletti","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2002-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Studies of Male Head in Profile","titletype":"Published","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":3230,"displayname":"Jusepe de Ribera","displaydate":"1591–1652; born Xàtiva, Spain; died Naples, Italy; active Naples and Rome, Italy","datebegin":1591,"dateend":1652,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Jusepe de Ribera, 1591–1652; born Xàtiva, Spain; died Naples, Italy; active Naples and Rome, Italy","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Mathias Polakovits (1921-1987), Paris and New York, stamp, recto, lower right in black; placed on long-term loan to the Art Museum of Mathias Polakovits, 1984; purchased by the Art Museum from the estate of Mathias Polakovits, 2002.;","remarks":"From accession card. "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"While working in Italy, Ribera developed a taste for working-class models, a precise style as a draftsman, and a reputation as a leading exponent of Caravaggio’s bold and dramatic realist manner as a painter—qualities present in these red chalk studies of a man’s head. The drawing has been dated to about 1622 because of its relationship to a series of dated etchings of ears, eyes, noses, and mouths, thought to have been produced as illustrations for an unpublished academic drawing manual.","remarks":"Works on Paper Installation May 2012"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Handbook Entry","textentryhtml":"\r\nCalled Lo Spagnoletto, the painter Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his life in Naples, where he settled in 1616, quickly becoming a leading and highly original exponent of Caravaggio’s bold and dramatic realism. Unlike Caravaggio, who is said to have disdained the practice of drawing, Ribera was a master draftsman whose most finished works reveal his interest in the academic rigor and classicizing naturalism of Annibale Carracci. One of three red chalk drawings by Ribera in the Museum’s collection, this superb study sheet can be dated to early in his career, given its relationship with his three etchings of ears, eyes, noses, and mouths of about 1622, which were probably intended for a drawing manual. His strong interest in facial expression and anatomical accuracy is exemplified in the man’s concentrated gaze and in the attention to minute details such as the tiny stray hairs on his chin. Ribera’s distinctively analytic approach is reflected in the subtle superimposition of four studies of different portions and views of the man’s head — including a faintly delineated eye — in which Ribera demonstrates his mastery of the medium, using the point and side of the sharpened red chalk to create sharp contours and delicate cross-hatching. 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","citation":"Jonathan Brown, Jusepe de Ribera: prints and drawings: [catalogue of an exhibition] The Art Museum, Princeton University, October-November 1973, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1973). , cat. no. 1; p. 153-154; pl. 28","date":1973,"id":5574,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/781367"},{"boilertext":"Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921).","citation":"Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921)., Lugt no. 3561","date":1921,"id":5576,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/485005423"},{"boilertext":"Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)","citation":"Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 271 (illus.)","date":2007,"id":474,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/191864564"},{"boilertext":"Jonathan Brown, Susan Grace Galassi, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Pablo Pérez d'Ors, The Spanish manner: drawings from Ribera to Goya, (New York: Frick Collection; London: Scala Publishers, 2010). 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