Study of a Madonna [verso], probably 1470/1480

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 16 x 13.5 cm (6 5/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.2.b

Artists / Makers

Leonardo da Vinci (artist) Florentine, 1452 - 1519

Image Use

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Provenance

Albert M. Shapiro, Berkeley, 1972; Private collection, New York; (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); to Armand Hammer Collection, 1972; gift to NGA in 1991.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Shapiro, Albert M.

Exhibition History

1972: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1972, beginning with The Royal Academy of Arts, London.

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 65.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 32.

1981: Leonardo da Vinci, The Codex Hammer, formerly The Codex Leicester, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and other venues, 1981-1982, 47, 122, as "Hammer 20."

1982: Leonardo da Vinci, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 1982-1983.

1983: Exhibited with the Leonardo da Vinci Codex Hammer, beginning with Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1983, and ending with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1986.

1984: Rejoined tour with the Armand Hammer collection for 1 venue: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.

1985: Leonardo: il Codice Hammer e la Mappa di Imola presentati da Carlo Pedretti. Arte e Scienza a Bologna in Emilia e Romagno nel Primo Cinquecento, 1985, Palazzo del Podestà, Bologna, 63, color pl. VIII.

2003: "Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, no. 24.