Head of a Moor

Artist Peter Paul Rubens Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Dateca. 1615

Place of OriginAntwerp, Flanders, Belgium

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsPanel: 18 × 14 1/2 in. (45.7 × 1.3 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 29 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (75.6 × 67.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineThe Hyde Collection Trust, 1952

Object number1971.40

On View

On view

Collections

European Paintings & Sculpture

DescriptionSketch of a black male head and shoulders, 3/4 view facing to the viewer's left, leaning forward, mustache and chin beard, wearing a white, open-collared shirt.Exhibition History"Masterpieces of Art," New York World's Fair, 1939;

The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1941;

"Masterpieces of Five Centuries," Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, NY, Jan. 20 - Feb. 3, 1951;

"Drawings & Oil Sketches by P.P. Rubens from American Collections," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Jan. 14 - Feb. 29, 1956; The Morgan Library, NY, Mar. 20- Apr. 28, 1956;

"Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens," Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, Oct. 2, 2004- Jan. 30, 2005; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 2-May 15, 2005; and Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June 11-Sept. 11, 2005.ProvenanceCzechoslovakia, Count Schwanenberg
by 1938, New York, NY, Lilienfeld Galleries
1938, Glens, Falls, NY, Mrs. Charlotte P. Hyde
1952, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust