1936.119: Portrait of a Lady

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.119

People

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian (Milan, Italy 1467 - 1516 Milan, Italy)
Previously attributed to Bernardino Luini, Italian (Milan, Italy c. 1480 - c. 1532 Milan, Italy)

Title

Portrait of a Lady

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Milan

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298683

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal heightened with white chalk on buff antique laid paper, mounted overall to antique laid paper

Dimensions

38 × 28 cm (14 15/16 × 11 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: in mount: VAN GELDE[R] with countermark of nude figure in an orb [cf Heawood 1364 and 1365] in mount

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lord de l'Isle. John Postle Heseltine, London. Henry Oppenheimer, London, sold [through Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 117 (as Luini)]; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., 1936], sold; to The Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1936, gift; to The Fogg Art Museum, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.119

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Postle Heseltine, Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School Forming Part of the Collection of J. P. H., J. J. Waddington, Ltd. (London, England, 1913), cat. no. 24, n.p., repr., as Luini
• Tancred Borenius, "Von der Italienischen Austellung in London", Pantheon (March 1930), vol. V, pp. 142-145, repr. p. 143
• Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1930), cat. no. 640 (as Luini)
• Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, ed., A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January - March 1930, exh. cat. (London, 1931), cat. no. 789
• Arthur E. Popham, Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, 1930, Oxford University Press (NY) (London, England, 1931), cat. no. 187, p. 52; pl. CLVIIB
• Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1936 - July 14, 1936), lot 117, pl. 29 (as Bernardino Luini)
• Agnes Mongan, "A Gift of Old Master Drawings", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1937), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 22-34, pp. 28-29; repr. fig. 5, p. 28
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Master Drawings of the Renaissance: Notable and New Items in American Collections", ARTnews Annual (New York, NY, 1939), vol. XXXVII, no. 22, pp. 97-116, 180-185, p. 182; repr. fig. 11, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 118, pp. 72-73; vol. 2, repr. fig. 74 as Bernardino Luini
• Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 50, n.p. 12 Luini
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 5
• 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. 86, p. 113, repr. as Bernardino Luini
• Angela Ottino della Chiesa, Bernardino Luini, Istituto Geografico de Agostini-Novara (Novara, Italy, 1956), cat. no. 3, pp. 143-44 as Bernardino Luini
• Luigi Grassi, Il disegno italiano dal Trecento al Seicento, Edizioni dell'Ateneo (Rome, Italy, 1956), p. 103; f.n. 41, p. 109; fig. 87, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, pp. 201-202
• Licia Ragghianti Collobi, Il Libro de' Disegni del Vasari, Valecchi (Florence, Italy, 1974), vol. 1, p. 96
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 9, n.p., pl. 9, repr.
• Old Master Drawings from the Albertina, International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C., 1984), under cat. no. 53 and repr. no. 53c, p. 233
• Laura Giles, In Leonardo's Shadow: Drawings by his Followers, exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS, 1986), cat. no. 3, n.p., repr. as Boltraffio
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 22, n.p., and pp. 30 and 71, and under cat. no. 23, n.p., repr. col...

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1930 - 03/08/1930
• Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 06/03/1949 - 07/17/1949
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• In Leonardo's Shadow: Drawings by his Followers, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, 03/22/1986 - 05/25/1986

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