The 50 plates / Plate 33 of 50
Plate 33 of 50
Head of an Angel
Engelkopf
Lorenzo di Credi
Not yet located
The drawing
A finely modeled head of a youthful angel in three-quarter profile, turned toward the left and looking slightly upward. The figure has smooth, rounded features, softly parted lips, and long hair falling behind the ear. Delicate shading defines the face, while the neck and shoulders remain lightly sketched.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Lorenzo di Credi
- Title as printed
- Engelkopf
- Title in English
- Head of an Angel
- Medium and size
- Silverpoint heightened with white, 17.4 × 14.2 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned; Mariette collector’s stamp
- Collection in 1922
- Julius Böhler jun., Munich (by tradition from Goethe’s collection)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Lorenzo di Credi, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution to this exact drawing has been established.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 33.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.