Half-Length of Mary Magdalene [verso], c. 1565/1567

Not on View

Medium

black chalk heightened with white on blue paper

Dimensions

overall: 40 x 27.4 cm (15 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1983.17.1.b

Artists / Makers

Federico Barocci (artist) Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in brown ink, upside down: Barocci

Provenance

Dr. Stefan von Licht, Vienna (Lugt Supp.789b)(sale, Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt-am-Main, 7 December 1927, no. 90); Prof. Otto Benesch, Vienna; Private Collection, Stockholm; Edmund Pillsbury; NGA purchase in 1983.

Associated Names

Benesch, Otto, Prof.
Helbing, Hugo
Licht, Stefan von
Pillsbury, Edmund P.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1978: The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci, Selected Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, no. 18

1984: Correggio and His Legacy, Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma (catalogue in Italian), 1984, no. 96.