Head of a Young Woman

c. 1605

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 23.8 x 25 cm (9 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.48.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reznicek 1961, no. 368


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Kurt Meissner); acquired 1984 by the NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1961

  • Reznicek, E.K.J. Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius. 2 vols. (text and plate volumes), Utrecht, 1961.

1967

  • Meissner, 100 ZEICHNUNGEN..., 1967/67, 64.

1993

  • Reznicek, E.K.J. "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné." Master Drawings XXXI (Autumn 1993): A 393, p. 278.

Inscriptions

upper right in black chalk: HG; in unknown hand, lower left in brown ink: Goltzius; in later hand, lower left verso in graphite: NO.5327Z; lower right in graphite: Meissner

Wikidata ID

Q64573642


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