Portrait of a Woman [recto]
c. 1508
Artist, German, c. 1465 - 1524

Artwork overview
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Medium
silverpoint with brush and black and brown ink over charcoal and leadpoint, heightened with white on white prepared paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (Oval): 14.4 x 10.3 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.182.18.a
Associated Artworks

Study of a Bearded Man [verso]
Hans Holbein the Elder
1508
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Furstenberg collection, Donaueschingen; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, July 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 62 (recto and verso).
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 3.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 23.
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 138.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 51.
2015
Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The British Museum, London, 2015, no. 22.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 23.
2012
Kennicott, Philip. "The Passion of the Renaissance, via Germany." Washington Post 135, no. 300 (September 30, 2012): E5, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right in pen and ink: .H.H
Wikidata ID
Q64572931