Head of a Woman
c. 1515
Artist, Florentine, 1486 - 1530

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 33 x 22.4 cm (13 x 8 13/16 in.)
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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