Head of a Child [recto]

c. 1490

Fra Bartolommeo

Artist, Florentine, 1472 - 1517

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    silverpoint, heightened with white, on yellow-brown prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (oval): 10.3 x 9.1 cm (4 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
    support: 11.3 x 10.4 cm (4 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.10.1.a

Associated Artworks

A Monk [verso]

Fra Bartolommeo

1500

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 8-10 June 1920, no. 14, as attr. to Lorenzo di Credi, bought in); André Beurdeley (sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 20 June 1961, no. 4, pl. B, as attr. to Lorenzo di Credi); (Wildenstein & Co., New York); George Bernier; NGA purchase in 1973.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Art for Your Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1969 (no catalogue).

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 11.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 76.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 34.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

Bibliography

1974

  • Grossman, Sheldon. "An Early Drawing by Fra Bartolommeo," Studies in the History of Art 6 (1974): 7-22, fig. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q64562130

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