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Study Head of a Bearded Man
Frans Floris, I (Netherlandish, by 1520–1570)
c. 1565
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 46.5 × 33.6 cm (18 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 58.5 × 6.4 cm (28 × 23 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Flanders
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In the upper-left corner of this painting, just barely visible against the black background, a monogram reading FFF identifies the artist as Frans Floris, who operated a large and influential workshop in Antwerp. This panel served as a head study (possibly of Hercules), a technique Floris often used to work through expressions and characters for finished compositions. His practice anticipated the tronie—Dutch for “head”—studies popular in the 17th century among artists such as Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
