The first and the third head from the left go back to the iconography of Van Dyck (Marie Mauqnoy-Hendrickx, L'iconografie d'Antoine Van Dyck, catalogue raisonné, Brussels, 1956), which makes it possible to identify them respectively as Frans Francken the Younger and Frans Snijders. It is not known whether the other portraits also represent painters. The assumption that the fourth head represents Rubens, based on the self-portrait that is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. 527), has not been confirmed.
| Artist |
Cornelis de Vos
RKD
Wikidata
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| Title | Study with the Head of Five Men |
| Period | 17th century |
| Medium and support | heightened AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | collector's mark |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | chalk drawings AAT |
| Inventory number | 1949-AI |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Gutekunst & Klipstein Bern 1949-06 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1949-AI |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/12151/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A221
head (human)
Iconclass
31A534 beard Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 48B3 portrait, self-portrait of artist Iconclass 48C513 portrait, self-portrait of painter Iconclass 48C524 drawing, sketch Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Martin De Vos, Pieter De Vos, Cornelis De Vos (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Tekeningen, pastels en aquarellen; Inventaris / Moniek Nagels. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1988 (p. 16) |
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