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拍品專文
The attribution of this unpublished drawing was kindly confirmed by Dr. Tilman Falk in a letter dated 28 November 2001. Dr. Falk adds that 'the shovel looks absolutely good and seems to be in the red chalk of the head itself. One striking feature is the contrast of the realism in the face against the calligraphy of the hair'. He compares the drawing to four small allegorical oil paintings of the Humours depicted as heads.
The drawing closest in handling to the present work is probably the study of heads in red chalk illustrated by Friedrich Winkler as no. 75 in his Die Zeichnungen Hans Süss von Kulmbachs und Hans Leonhard Schäufelein published in Berlin in 1942. That drawing, from the Warwick Collection, depicts two heads of bearded men in fluently applied red chalk delineating hair and beard. The faces, by contrast, are drawn with very short strokes of red chalk on both sheets. Also comparable is a red chalk Head of Christ in the Louvre (F. Winkler, op. cit., no. 78 and E. Starcky in Dessins de Dürer et de la Renaissance germanique, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1992, no. 95). Other comparable drawings are the black chalk head of 1520 in Berlin, and two others in the same technique in Stockholm and Berlin (F. Winckler, op. cit., nos. 70 and 76). All these drawings present the same characteristic heavy eyelids with round pupils. A figure in the background of an Adoration of the Magi in Stuttgart wears the same hat as the present subject.
Schäufelein was already a fully developed artist when he began to work in Dürer's workshop in 1503. He stayed with Dürer in Nuremberg for about four years, active as a woodcut engraver as well as a painter. In 1508 he moved to Augsburg to work with Hans Holbein the Elder. The following year he went to the South Tyrol before returning to Augsburg in 1511 as an independent artist. In 1515 he transferred to Nördlingen, although he kept close contacts with Nuremberg. He remained in there until his death.
In German the name Schäufelein is a diminutive of Schaufel, a shovel, a device the artist often used to sign his drawings. The shovel is visible in the upper left corner of the present drawing.
The drawing closest in handling to the present work is probably the study of heads in red chalk illustrated by Friedrich Winkler as no. 75 in his Die Zeichnungen Hans Süss von Kulmbachs und Hans Leonhard Schäufelein published in Berlin in 1942. That drawing, from the Warwick Collection, depicts two heads of bearded men in fluently applied red chalk delineating hair and beard. The faces, by contrast, are drawn with very short strokes of red chalk on both sheets. Also comparable is a red chalk Head of Christ in the Louvre (F. Winkler, op. cit., no. 78 and E. Starcky in Dessins de Dürer et de la Renaissance germanique, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1992, no. 95). Other comparable drawings are the black chalk head of 1520 in Berlin, and two others in the same technique in Stockholm and Berlin (F. Winckler, op. cit., nos. 70 and 76). All these drawings present the same characteristic heavy eyelids with round pupils. A figure in the background of an Adoration of the Magi in Stuttgart wears the same hat as the present subject.
Schäufelein was already a fully developed artist when he began to work in Dürer's workshop in 1503. He stayed with Dürer in Nuremberg for about four years, active as a woodcut engraver as well as a painter. In 1508 he moved to Augsburg to work with Hans Holbein the Elder. The following year he went to the South Tyrol before returning to Augsburg in 1511 as an independent artist. In 1515 he transferred to Nördlingen, although he kept close contacts with Nuremberg. He remained in there until his death.
In German the name Schäufelein is a diminutive of Schaufel, a shovel, a device the artist often used to sign his drawings. The shovel is visible in the upper left corner of the present drawing.