Bust of Two Men [recto]

Sperandio

Artist, Mantuan, c. 1425/1428 - c. 1504

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black and brown ink with light underdrawing with a stylus on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 7.2 x 13.3 cm (2 13/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
    support: 15.3 x 21.4 cm (6 x 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.37.1.a

Associated Artworks

Standing Young Man [verso]

Sperandio

1431

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 13 (as Sperandio of Mantua)

1988

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

Inscriptions

in later hand, effaced, lower left: Leonardo

Wikidata ID

Q64536917

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