id: 144938 accession number: 1970.14 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.14 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:25.493000 Head of an Old Woman, c. 1500. Hans Holbein (German, c. 1465–1524). Silverpoint; traces of framing lines in graphite; sheet: 6.6 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.); secondary support: 6.6 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.14 title: Head of an Old Woman title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, late 15th-early 16th Century technique: silverpoint; traces of framing lines in graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hans Holbein (German, c. 1465–1524) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 6.6 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.); Secondary Support: 6.6 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper prepared with a gray ground laid down on cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in graphite: L#. [2..h?] ; center, in black chalk: SAS [in ligature, collectors mark, see provenance] ; center right, in graphite: eÿck 30 ; VERSO OF FRAGMENT OF OLD MOUNT (now removed), at left, in graphite: W. Hollar ; upper left, in graphite: B ; center, in graphite: [illegible] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: The German Tradition opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00 The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Unidentified collector (Lugt 178c (possibly Count Sparr, late 18th century Swedish Ambassador to England), verso of secondary support, inscribed in graphite). Mrs. E. Zwicky, Basel- Arlsheim (according to departmental cataloguing sheet); J. W. Zwicky (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). [Paul Drey Gallery, New York] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 127 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n147 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.14/1970.14_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.14/1970.14_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.14/1970.14_full.tif