Catalogue raisonné: Numbered in pen and brown ink at lower right: 76 (Sparre) and 2

Lorenzo di Creci worked between 1480/81 and 1488 in the studio of Verrocchio, where he met a number of fellow-pupils such as Botticelli and Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Leonardo da Vinci. He was influenced by them and by the Flemish paintings which were so highly esteemed by the Medicean court. The close study of reality and the refined and precise technique that characterise these paintings affected him as well. His portrait drawings demonstrate sensibility and empathy and his models often express a melancholic mood. The closest parallels to our drawing we find in the British Museum.

The verso is done in a unique technique, creating a plastic effect by parallel strokes only. The drawing is not mentioned or treated in the monograph on Lorenzo di Credi by G. Dalli Regoli.

Chris Fischer compares this drawing with the portraits by Filippino, primarily in the "Crucifixion of St Peter" and the "Dispute of Saints Peter and Paul with Simon Magus before Nero" in the Capella Brancacci (S. Maria del Carmine, Florence) from c. 1483 [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1020 (recto)]

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Lorenzo Credi | Mansporträtt (ovan) och porträtt av kvinna eller yngling (nedan) | Nationalmuseum

Lorenzo Credi | Head of a Man (above) and Head of a Woman or a Young Boy (below) | Nationalmuseum

Titel (sv): Mansporträtt (ovan) och porträtt av kvinna eller yngling (nedan)
Titel (en): Head of a Man (above) and Head of a Woman or a Young Boy (below)

Title (sv): Mansporträtt (ovan) och porträtt av kvinna eller yngling (nedan)
Title (en): Head of a Man (above) and Head of a Woman or a Young Boy (below)