Two Nude Figures [verso], c. 1500

Provenance

Archibald George Blomefield Russell [born 1879], London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 May 1928, lot 89); De Clementi; John Nicholas Brown, Providence [1900-1979]; (David Tunick, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 13 August 1986; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Exhibition History

1929

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1929.

1931

Rhode Island Shool of Design, 1931.

1950

Masterpieces of Drawings: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1950-1, no. 19.

1962

Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1962, no. 32.

1973

100 Master Drawings from New England Private Collection, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford and tour, 1973-74, no. 1.

1987

Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 4.

1990

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 5.

1991

Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 20.

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