Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1523

Provenance

Guadagni collection, Florence (according to Richter, 1901, no. 68); William Drury-Lowe, Locko Park, England, acquired between 1840 and 1865; by descent to Capt. P.J.B. Drury-Lowe, Prestwold Hall, Loughborough, England. (Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1987, lot 32); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; The Ian Woodner Family Collection, Inc.; gift to NGA, 1991.

Exhibition History

1868

National Exhibition of Works of Art, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1868, no. 2541a.

1953

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953, no. 51.

1968

Pictures from Locko Park, University Art, Gallery, Nottingham, 1968, no. 10.

1969

Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, The Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh, 1969, no. 1.

1987

Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 13.

1990

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 17.

1992

Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992, no. 5.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 41.

2000

Art for the Nation, Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 144-145.

2006

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

2015

Andrea del Sarto: Renaissance Workshop in Action, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and The Frick Collection, New York, 2015-2016, no. 49 (color)(entry by Denise Allen).

2017

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

Bibliography

1899

Guinness, H. Andrea del Sarto. London, 1899: 74.

1901

Richter, Jean Paul. Catalogue of Pictures at Locko Park. London, 1901: no. 68.

1903

Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 2 vols. London, 1903: 2: no. 130.

1928

Knapp, Fritz. Andrea del Sarto. Leipzig, 1907: 135 (2nd edn. 1928: 115).

1938

Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Amplified edn. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: II: no. 130.

1961

Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini. Revised and amplified edn. 3 vols. Milan, 1961: no. 130.

1963

Freedberg, Sydney J. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA, 1963: 168, fig. 125.

1965

Shearman, John. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols. Oxford, 1965: 2: 359, pl. 124b.

1968

Vertova, Luisa. "La raccolta di Locko Park," Antichità viva, 7, no. 3 (1968): 26, 30, fig. 11.

1970

Tempesti, Anna Forlani. Capolavori del Rinascimento: Il primo Cinquecento toscano. Milan, 1970: 92, fig. 40.

1987

Art and Auction, 9, no. 8 (March, 1987): 142.

1987

Byam Shaw, James. "Royal Academy Exhibition--Drawings from the Collection of Ian Woodner," Apollo, 126, no. 308 (October, 1987): 236, repr. on the cover.

1987

Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 85, repro. p. 86.

1988

Cummings, Paul. "Interview: Ian Woodner Talks with Paul Cummings." Drawing. IX, 5 (1988): 106-107.

1995

Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17, no. 3 (September-October 1995): 49-53 (repr. fig. 7).

2015

Cotteroct, Holland. "A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection." The New York Times (22 October 2015): C24.

2015

"Free Hand: Andrea del Sarto at the Frick," The Economist 17 October 2015: 90.

2015

Ng, Aimee. "Andrea del Sarto's Seductive Saints." The Getty Iris: The Online Magazine of the Getty. blogs.getty.edu/iris/andre-del-sartos-seductive-saints

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