Head of a Young Woman, c. 1605

Not on View

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 23.8 x 25 cm (9 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Reznicek 1961, no. 368

Accession Number

1984.48.1

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in black chalk: HG; in unknown hand, lower left in brown ink: Goltzius; in later hand, lower left verso in graphite: NO.5327Z; lower right in graphite: Meissner

Provenance

(Galerie Kurt Meissner); acquired 1984 by the NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie Kurt Meissner

Bibliography

1961: Reznicek, E.K.J. Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius. 2 vols. (text and plate volumes), Utrecht, 1961.

1967: Meissner, 100 ZEICHNUNGEN..., 1967/67, 64.

1993: Reznicek, E.K.J. "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné." Master Drawings XXXI (Autumn 1993): A 393, p. 278.