Head of a Woman, c. 1515

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 33 x 22.4 cm (13 x 8 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1991.217.5

Artists / Makers

Andrea del Sarto (artist) Florentine, 1486 - 1530

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand (?) lower left in pen and ink: A. del Sarto; by later hand, lower center verso in red chalk: Andrea del Sarto / A del Sarto; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: FROM THE DUKE'S OF ARGYLL COLLECTION / 4th DUKES OF ARGYLL SALE / (LONDON, T. PHILIPPE, 21st MAY 1798)

Provenance

Jan Pietersz. Zoomer (Lugt 1511); Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2184); John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll by 1784 (sale, London, T. Philipe, 21-23 May 1798); Walter Savage Landor, Florence; Private Collection, Zurich; Julius Böhler, Munich; sold to Armand Hammer Collection, 1977; gift to NGA in 1991.

Associated Names

Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, John
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Landor, Walter Savage
Philipe, Thomas
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Zoomer, Jan Pietersz

Exhibition History

1977: Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1977, beginning with J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.

1977: Munich, Julius Böhler, Handzeichnungen aus Fünf Jahrhunderten 1400-1900 und einige Bronzen und Terrakotten, Summer 1977, no. 5.

Bibliography

1965: John Shearman, Andrea del Sarto, Oxford, 1965, 289-290, 385-386, plate 47a.

1965: Raffaele Monti, Andrea del Sarto, Milan, 1965, 125-126, no. 352.

2000: (sale cat.), Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2000, under no. 12, fig. 1.

2005: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence. Exh. cat. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 2005: 142, fig. 37.2