Portrait of a Lady

1623

Ottavio Leoni

Artist, Roman, c. 1578 - 1630

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colored chalks on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.8 x 16 cm (9 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.33.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

C. R. Rudolf; C. A. Piek; Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, by 1969; Stanza del Borgo, Milan, by 1970; NGA purchase in 1977.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Master Drawings, Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1969, no. 30.

1970

  • Visi e figure in Disegni Italiani e Stranieri dal Cinquecento all'Ottocento, Loggia Rucellai, Florence, and Stanza del Borgo, Milan, 1970, no. 28.1

Bibliography

1981

  • De Michel-Ange à Gericault, Dessins de la donation Armand-Valton, École nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and elsewhere, 1981-1982, 40, under no. 19.1985

1984

  • Spike, John T. Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections. (Exh. cat. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1984-1985) Sarasota, 1984: 18.

2000

  • Lukatis, Christiane, and Hans Ottomeyer. Mit Pinsel, Feder und Stift, Meisterzeichnungen der Graphischen Sammlung. Exh. cat. Staatlichen Museen Kassel, 2000, 48, under no. 16.

2013

  • Solinas, Francesco. Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630), Les Portraits de Berlin. Rome, 2013: 234 (fig. 1, color), 236, under no. 71.

Inscriptions

lower left: 265/ Agosto; center: 1623 / Innocentia alias Censia; lower right verso label: Biz.3.V

Wikidata ID

Q64618724


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