A Smiling Boy with Flowing Hair, c. 1700

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22.4 x 17.6 cm (8 13/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.170

Artists / Makers

Italian 17th Century (artist)

Italian 18th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand on mount, upper left verso in graphite: H445; by later hand on mount, upper center verso in brown ink: T(?) 101 / F.3 / P 2 / T (?) (Shelf numbers by Jonathan Richardson Senior?); by later hand on mount, lower right verso in graphite: steel grey

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. [1665-1745], London (Lugt, 2184). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, by 1977, as Circle of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
McCrindle, Joseph F.
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan

Exhibition History

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 72-73, no. 25 (entry by Lara Langer).

Bibliography

1977: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, Stock Catalogue. London, November 1977: no. 59 (as Circle of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli).