An Elegant Young Man Personifying Vanity

Francesco Brizio

Artist, Italian, c. 1575 - 1623

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Diane Allen Nixon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 19.5 x 29.9 cm (7 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.64.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Tobias Christ, London; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 9 April 1981, no. 20, as Bolognese School); Private Collection, Cape Town, South Africa. (James Faber Ltd., London); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2007

  • Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1937

  • Wescher, P. "Dosso Dossi." Old Master Drawings 11 (1937): 67, pl. 66.

1945

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. "Some Drawings by Niccolo dell'Abbate." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1945): 377, fig. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q64562334

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