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Title Head of a Woman
Material and technique Red chalk, on grey prepared paper
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 291 mm
Width 214 mm
Artists : Anoniem
: Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)
Accession number I 391 verso (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1550-1600
Watermark crown (?), poorly visible through sheet on recto and verso, verso also prepared (below right, vH, ?P) [no photo]
Inscriptions 'G.15' (above right, red chalk), 'Pontormo' (above right, pencil), 'Florentine 16th. c. $250' (above right, pencil), 'G. 16' (verso, above right, pencilt), '16476' (idem, below right, pencil)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark G. Vallardi (L.1223, no. G.15), #H. von Aufsess (L.2749-2750), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863, L.1223/1223a)**, art dealer, Milan, his no. G 15; #Hans von Aufsess (1801-1872, L.2749-2750), Aufsess/Nuremberg #or unknown coll. (L.2756c); Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (Pontormo); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature Berenson 1938, no. 2442B (Rosso Fiorentino); Barocchi 1950, p. 227 (Rosso Fiorentino?); Berenson 1961, no. 2458 D-2 (Rosso Fiorentino); Cox Rearick 1964, vol. 1, p. 409, no. A535 (Pier Francesco Foschi?)
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Object
Technique
Prepare > Prepared > Shaping techniques > General technique > Technique > Material and technique
Prepare > Prepared > Shaping techniques > General technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Place of manufacture Florence > Tuscany > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

This drawing is the verso of I 391. For the catalogue entry on this sheet, see the recto record for the drawing.

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