Two Nude Figures [verso]
c. 1500
Artist, Cortonese, 1445/1450 - 1523
Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk on tan laid paper
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Credit Line
Woodner Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 22.5 x 17.7 cm (8 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.8.1.b
Associated Artworks
Bust of a Youth Looking Upward [recto]
Luca Signorelli
1500
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Archibald George Blomefield Russell [born 1879], London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 May 1928, lot 89); De Clementi; John Nicholas Brown, Providence [1900-1979]; (David Tunick, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 13 August 1986; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1929.
1931
Rhode Island Shool of Design, 1931.
1950
Masterpieces of Drawings: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1950-1, no. 19.
1962
Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1962, no. 32.
1973
100 Master Drawings from New England Private Collection, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford and tour, 1973-74, no. 1.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 4.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 5.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 20.
Watermarks
balance
Wikidata ID
Q64594065