1959.161: Head of a Girl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1959.161

People

Bernardino Luini, Italian (Milan, Italy c. 1480 - c. 1532 Milan, Italy)

Title

Head of a Girl

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297008

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk or charcoal on blue antique laid paper, laid down overall to antique laid paper decorated mount

Dimensions

29.4 x 20.9 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: l.r., black ink, stamped: L. 2184
• collector's mark: l.r., black ink, stamped: L. 1511
• inscription: bottom center of mount, black ink: Lionardo

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jonathan Richardson Sr., London (Lugt 2184), 1745. Jan Pietersz Zoomer, Amsterdam (Lugt 1511). [A. S. Drey, Munich/New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, January 2, 1929, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1959

Object Number

1959.161

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 119, p. 73; vol. 2, repr. fig. 75
• Allene Talmey, "The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard", Vogue, Conde Nast (New York, July 15, 1947), 15 July, pp. 44-49, 78-80, repr. p. 49
• William R. Valentiner and William E. Suida, Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1949), cat. no. 87, p. 113, repr.
• Angela Ottino della Chiesa, Bernardino Luini, Istituto Geografico de Agostini-Novara (Novara, Italy, 1956), cat. no. 4, p. 144
• Henry A. La Farge, "Wellesley alumnae and in-group collectors", Art News (March 1962), vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 30 and 68, text and repr., p. 30
• Frederick Schab, ed., Woodner Collection I: Selection of Drawings before 1700, exh. cat., William H. Schab Gallery (New York, NY, 1971), under cat. no. 11, n.p.
• Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, repr. fig. 4, p. 129; p. 130
• Laura Giles, In Leonardo's Shadow: Drawings by his Followers, exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS, 1986), text and repr., cat. no. 16, n.p.
• "Renaissance Art of Lombardy Featured at Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Gazette (May 27, 1988), repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 28, 30, 32, 73; cat. no. 23, n.p.; repr. (color), n.p.
• Patricia Trutty-Coohill and Carlo Pedretti, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and His Circle in America, Giunti Editore (Florence, Italy, 1993), cat. no. 41, p. 78
• Manuela Fidalgo, Drawings and Watercolours in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, exh. cat., Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2014), under cat. no. 3, p. 42, repr. as fig. 3.1
• Cristina Quattrini, Bernardino Luini: Catalogo generale delle opere, Allemandi (Turin, 2019), no. 27, repr.

Exhibition History

• Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 06/03/1949 - 07/17/1949
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2017 - 12/12/2017

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