1979.53: Portrait of a Young Girl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.53

People

Ottavio Leoni, Italian (Rome, Italy 1578 - 1630 Rome, Italy)

Title

Portrait of a Young Girl

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1605-1610

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295485

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk and brown wash (?), on faded blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

18.9 × 11.9 cm (7 7/16 × 4 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Henri Leroux, Versailles. [Walter Schatzki, December 1959] sold to; Frances Hofer, Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.53

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 7, p. 20, repr. p. 80
• Piera Giovanna Tordella, Ottavio Leoni e la ritrattistica a disegno protobarocca, Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, 2011), p. 54
• Yuri Primarosa, Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630): Eccelente miniator di ritratti. Catalogo ragionato dei disegni e dei dipinti, Ugo Bozzi Editore (Rome, 2017), cat. no. 117, p. 334, repr.

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984

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