Profile Studies - I

Leonardo da Vinci
Head of a Warrior
(study for painting, The Battle of Anghiari)
ca. 1504-1505
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Marcantonio Raimondi
Roman Coin with Head of the Emperor Titus
ca. 1520
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacopo da Trezzo
Portrait of Philip II of Spain
ca. 1559-62
onyx cameo with enameled-gold mount
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Agostino Carracci
Heads of Two Women
ca. 1590-1600
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Anonymous Italian Artist
Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder
16th-17th century
carnelian intaglio
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Giovanni Bonazza
Flavius Ansprandus, Lombard King
ca. 1700-1720
marble relief
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Anonymous Dutch Artist
Silhouette of a Woman
ca. 1775-1800
drawing
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen

Johann Peter Pichler
Maria Christina, Archduchess of Austria
(sister of Marie Antoinette)
ca. 1785
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

François-Frédéric Grobon
Portrait Study of Anthelme-Eugène Grobon
1834
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Alexander Hugo Bakker-Korff
Portrait of the artist's sister Ada
ca. 1851
oil on canvas
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

William Wyon
Portrait Head of Queen Victoria
(Royal Academy of Arts Medal)
1874
silver
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Roland Larij
Study Head
ca. 1885
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Achille Lauge
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1894
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Emil Orlik
Portrait Study of a Woman
1899
lithograph
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

James Abbe
John Barrymore in The Jest
1919
gelatin silver print
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Stephen Conroy
The Poor King's Brother
1987
drawing
Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh

from September Is

Memory is deeply not alive; it's a mock-up

And this renders it hateful. Yet, it is not fiction,
Is a truth, indeed a sad and monstrous truth.

– Mary Jo Bang (2007)