Head of Saint John the Baptist
c. 1523
Andrea del Sarto
Artist, Florentine, 1486 - 1530
Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk on paper laid down on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 33 x 23.1 cm (13 x 9 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1991.182.14
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Guadagni collection, Florence (according to Richter, 1901, no. 68); William Drury-Lowe, Locko Park, England, acquired between 1840 and 1865; by descent to Capt. P.J.B. Drury-Lowe, Prestwold Hall, Loughborough, England. (Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1987, lot 32); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; The Ian Woodner Family Collection, Inc.; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1868
National Exhibition of Works of Art, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1868, no. 2541a.
1953
Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953, no. 51.
1968
Pictures from Locko Park, University Art, Gallery, Nottingham, 1968, no. 10.
1969
Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, The Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh, 1969, no. 1.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 13.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 17.
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992, no. 5.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 41.
2000
Art for the Nation, Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 144-145.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2015
Andrea del Sarto: Renaissance Workshop in Action, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and The Frick Collection, New York, 2015-2016, no. 49 (color)(entry by Denise Allen).
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1899
Guinness, H. Andrea del Sarto. London, 1899: 74.
1901
Richter, Jean Paul. Catalogue of Pictures at Locko Park. London, 1901: no. 68.
1903
Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 2 vols. London, 1903: 2: no. 130.
1928
Knapp, Fritz. Andrea del Sarto. Leipzig, 1907: 135 (2nd edn. 1928: 115).
1938
Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Amplified edn. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: II: no. 130.
1961
Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini. Revised and amplified edn. 3 vols. Milan, 1961: no. 130.
1963
Freedberg, Sydney J. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA, 1963: 168, fig. 125.
1965
Shearman, John. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols. Oxford, 1965: 2: 359, pl. 124b.
1968
Vertova, Luisa. "La raccolta di Locko Park," Antichità viva, 7, no. 3 (1968): 26, 30, fig. 11.
1970
Tempesti, Anna Forlani. Capolavori del Rinascimento: Il primo Cinquecento toscano. Milan, 1970: 92, fig. 40.
1987
Art and Auction, 9, no. 8 (March, 1987): 142.
Byam Shaw, James. "Royal Academy Exhibition--Drawings from the Collection of Ian Woodner," Apollo, 126, no. 308 (October, 1987): 236, repr. on the cover.
Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 85, repro. p. 86.
1988
Cummings, Paul. "Interview: Ian Woodner Talks with Paul Cummings." Drawing. IX, 5 (1988): 106-107.
1995
Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17, no. 3 (September-October 1995): 49-53 (repr. fig. 7).
2015
"Free Hand: Andrea del Sarto at the Frick," The Economist 17 October 2015: 90.
Cotteroct, Holland. "A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection." The New York Times (22 October 2015): C24.
Ng, Aimee. "Andrea del Sarto's Seductive Saints." The Getty Iris: The Online Magazine of the Getty. blogs.getty.edu/iris/andre-del-sartos-seductive-saints
Wikidata ID
Q59641646