Head of Saint John the Baptist

c. 1523

Andrea del Sarto

Artist, Florentine, 1486 - 1530

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on paper laid down on panel

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 33 x 23.1 cm (13 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.14


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Guadagni collection, Florence (according to Richter, 1901, no. 68); William Drury-Lowe, Locko Park, England, acquired between 1840 and 1865; by descent to Capt. P.J.B. Drury-Lowe, Prestwold Hall, Loughborough, England. (Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1987, lot 32); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; The Ian Woodner Family Collection, Inc.; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1868

  • National Exhibition of Works of Art, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1868, no. 2541a.

1953

  • Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953, no. 51.

1968

  • Pictures from Locko Park, University Art, Gallery, Nottingham, 1968, no. 10.

1969

  • Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, The Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh, 1969, no. 1.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 13.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 17.

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992, no. 5.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 41.

2000

  • Art for the Nation, Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 144-145.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2015

  • Andrea del Sarto: Renaissance Workshop in Action, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and The Frick Collection, New York, 2015-2016, no. 49 (color)(entry by Denise Allen).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1899

  • Guinness, H. Andrea del Sarto. London, 1899: 74.

1901

  • Richter, Jean Paul. Catalogue of Pictures at Locko Park. London, 1901: no. 68.

1903

  • Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 2 vols. London, 1903: 2: no. 130.

1928

  • Knapp, Fritz. Andrea del Sarto. Leipzig, 1907: 135 (2nd edn. 1928: 115).

1938

  • Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Amplified edn. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: II: no. 130.

1961

  • Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini. Revised and amplified edn. 3 vols. Milan, 1961: no. 130.

1963

  • Freedberg, Sydney J. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA, 1963: 168, fig. 125.

1965

  • Shearman, John. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols. Oxford, 1965: 2: 359, pl. 124b.

1968

  • Vertova, Luisa. "La raccolta di Locko Park," Antichità viva, 7, no. 3 (1968): 26, 30, fig. 11.

1970

  • Tempesti, Anna Forlani. Capolavori del Rinascimento: Il primo Cinquecento toscano. Milan, 1970: 92, fig. 40.

1987

  • Art and Auction, 9, no. 8 (March, 1987): 142.

  • Byam Shaw, James. "Royal Academy Exhibition--Drawings from the Collection of Ian Woodner," Apollo, 126, no. 308 (October, 1987): 236, repr. on the cover.

  • Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 85, repro. p. 86.

1988

  • Cummings, Paul. "Interview: Ian Woodner Talks with Paul Cummings." Drawing. IX, 5 (1988): 106-107.

1995

  • Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17, no. 3 (September-October 1995): 49-53 (repr. fig. 7).

2015

  • "Free Hand: Andrea del Sarto at the Frick," The Economist 17 October 2015: 90.

  • Cotteroct, Holland. "A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection." The New York Times (22 October 2015): C24.

  • Ng, Aimee. "Andrea del Sarto's Seductive Saints." The Getty Iris: The Online Magazine of the Getty. blogs.getty.edu/iris/andre-del-sartos-seductive-saints

Wikidata ID

Q59641646


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