Southern Italian Woman Dressed for Church, 1885/1888

Not on View

pastel on blue laid paper, prepared with beige gouache(?)

sheet: 64.5 × 46 cm (25 3/8 × 18 1/8 in.)

2012.145.1

Francesco Paolo Michetti (artist) Italian, 1851 - 1929

signed by artist, upper right (vertically), in black chalk, Michetti / 216; by artist (?), lower right, in graphite, 216

label: verso of backing board, Proprietà dell'avv. Camillio Giussani

Camillo Giussani [1879-1960], Milan [according to label on verso]. (Flavia Ormond, London); (Kate Ganz, New York); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Ganz, Kate, Ms.

2014: From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

2005: Flavia Ormond Fine Arts Limited. Master Drawings. New York [?], 2005, no. 23.

2014: Bober, Jonathan. "From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800-1925." National Gallery of Art Bulletin No. 50 (Spring 2014): reprod. p. 34 (color).