Portrait of a Woman [recto], c. 1508

Not on View

Medium

silverpoint with brush and black and brown ink over charcoal and leadpoint, heightened with white on white prepared paper

Dimensions

overall (Oval): 14.4 x 10.3 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1991.182.18.a

Artists / Makers

Hans Holbein the Elder (artist) German, c. 1465 - 1524

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and ink: .H.H

Provenance

Furstenberg collection, Donaueschingen; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, July 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Fürstenberg Collection
Woodner Family Collection, Inc., Ian, The

Exhibition History

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 62 (recto and verso).

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 3.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 23.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 138.

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

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 51.

2015: Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The British Museum, London, 2015, no. 22.

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

Bibliography

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 23.

2012: Kennicott, Philip. "The Passion of the Renaissance, via Germany." Washington Post 135, no. 300 (September 30, 2012): E5, repro.