Head of a Woman

c. 1515

Andrea del Sarto

Artist, Florentine, 1486 - 1530

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 33 x 22.4 cm (13 x 8 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jan Pietersz. Zoomer (Lugt 1511); Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2184); John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll by 1784 (sale, London, T. Philipe, 21-23 May 1798); Walter Savage Landor, Florence; Private Collection, Zurich; Julius Böhler, Munich; sold to Armand Hammer Collection, 1977; gift to NGA in 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Munich, Julius Böhler, Handzeichnungen aus Fünf Jahrhunderten 1400-1900 und einige Bronzen und Terrakotten, Summer 1977, no. 5.

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1977, beginning with J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.

Bibliography

1965

  • Raffaele Monti, Andrea del Sarto, Milan, 1965, 125-126, no. 352.

  • John Shearman, Andrea del Sarto, Oxford, 1965, 289-290, 385-386, plate 47a.

2000

  • (sale cat.), Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2000, under no. 12, fig. 1.

2005

  • Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence. Exh. cat. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 2005: 142, fig. 37.2

Inscriptions

by later hand (?) lower left in pen and ink: A. del Sarto; by later hand, lower center verso in red chalk: Andrea del Sarto / A del Sarto; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: FROM THE DUKE'S OF ARGYLL COLLECTION / 4th DUKES OF ARGYLL SALE / (LONDON, T. PHILIPPE, 21st MAY 1798)

Wikidata ID

Q64535751

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