The Study of the Head of a Young Moor by Gaspar de Crayer is a highly detailed study of a head. The earliest known painting in which De Crayer used this head is his 1630 Raising of the Cross, an altarpiece which is now housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. The Moor is shown as a young servant helping to raise the cross. It is not known whether De Crayer painted the Study of the Head of a Young Moor from life. He may have been inspired for this work by the well-known negro heads by Peter Paul Rubens from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Begium in Brussels, to which it shows some striking similarities. The work is probably a depiction of the same model that posed for various artists including Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens.
| Artist |
Gaspar de Crayer
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| Title | Study of the Head of a Young Moor |
| Date | ca. 1631 - ca. 1635 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1914-DF |
| Acquisition credit |
bequest
Scribe, Fernand Ghent 1913 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-DF |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/664/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A2421
head turned to the left
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31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31B62 morphology of facial expression Iconclass 31B6211 looking upwards Iconclass 31D1 the ages of man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 32A6 physiognomy Iconclass 32B321 African negroes Iconclass 48(+411) modelli Iconclass 48B13 artist's model, sitter Iconclass 61B11 anonymous historical person portrayed Iconclass 61B111 anonymous historical person portrayed alone Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 121) |
| Degradation, conservation et restauration de l'oeuvre d'art / Roger Hendrik Marijnissen. - Bruxelles : Editions Arcade, 1967 (vol. 1, p. 491) |
| Degradation, conservation et restauration de l'oeuvre d'art / Roger Hendrik Marijnissen. - Bruxelles : Editions Arcade, 1967 (vol. 2, p. 151) |
| Gaspar de Crayer : sa vie et ses oeuvres / Hans Vlieghe. - Bruxelles : Arcade, 1972 (p. 131, nr. A 65) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 48) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 72-73 (ill.)) |
| Black is beautiful : Rubens tot Dumas (tentoonstelling) Amsterdam, De Nieuwe Kerk, 26 juli - 26 oktober 2008 / Elmer Kolfin, Esther Schreuder, Jean Michel Massing, Elizabeth McGrath, Carl Haarnack. - Amsterdam : Waanders Uitgevers, 2008 |
| Entre Rubens et Van Dyck : Gaspar de Crayer (1584-1669) (exposition Cassel, Musée de Flandre, 30.06 - 04.11.2018) / Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart, Alexis Merle du Bourg, Hans Vlieghe, Matthias Depoorter, Valentine De Beir. - Cassel : Musée départemental de Flandre (Cassel), 2018 (p. 118-119) |
| From Titian to Rubens : Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections (exhibition Venice, Palazzo Ducale, 05.09.2019 - 01.03.2020) / Ben Van Beneden, Fred G. Meijer, Timothy De Paepe, Dirk Imhof. - Venice : MUVE, 2019 (p. 192, cat. 67) |
| Da Tiziano a Rubens : Capolavori da Anversa e da altre collezioni fiamminghe (mostra Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, 05.09.2019 - 01.03.2020) / Ben Van Beneden, Fred G. Meijer, Timothy De Paepe, Dirk Imhof. - Venezia : MUVE, 2019 (p. 192, cat. 67) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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