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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with stumping and touches of red chalk heightened with white on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 42.2 x 27.2 cm (16 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.17.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P.& D. Colnaghi, before 1912); Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (sale, London, Christie's, 13 July 1936, no. 153, as Ambrogio da Predis); (Bacri, Paris);[1] Benjamin Sonnenberg [1901-1978]; (sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 5-9 June 1979, lot 110, as Bernardino dei Conti); (Stuart Denenberg, San Francisco); (Mia Weiner, New York); (Yvonne tan Bunzl, London); (P.& D. Colnaghi, London); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, July 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.
[1] This drawing does not appear to be among those seized by the Nazis from Bacri, according to files at the National Archives.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, 1930, no. 625 (as Bernardino de' Conti (?)).

1959

  • Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries, M. Knoedler and Company and Columbia University, New York, 1959, 14, pl. XVII (as Bernardino dei Conti).

1965

  • Drawings from New York Collections I, The Italian Renaissance, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1965, no. 13 (as Bernardino dei Conti).

1985

  • Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 1985, no. 1 (as Ambrogio de Predis or Bernardino dei Conti).

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 10 (as Andrea Solario).

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 13.

1988

  • The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin and tour, 1988-89, 24 (as Andrea Solario) (checklist only).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 28.

2006

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

2017

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

Bibliography

1927

  • Parker, K.T. North Italian Drawings of the Quattrocento. London, 1927: no. 68 (as Bernardino de' Conti).

1929

  • Suida, Wilhelm. Leonardo und sein Kreis. Munich, 1929: 173 (as Ambrogio de Predis).

1946

  • Ragghianti, Carlo Ludovico. Commenti di Critica d'Arte. Bari, 1946: 225-226, pl. 6 (as Pordenone).

1967

  • Young, Mahonri Sharp. "Treasures in Gramercy Park." Apollo (March 1967): 178, pl. 6 (as Bernardino dei Conti).

1982

  • Fiorio, Maria Teresa in Grafica del '500 2'. Milano e Cremona. Exh. cat. Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (1982): 9-14.

1989

  • Shell, Janice. "New Haven: The Sforza Court." The Burlington Magazine 1033 (April 1989): 318.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 28.

Wikidata ID

Q64593289

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