School of Pietro da Cortona
Italian, 1596–1669
Head and Shoulders of a Woman
16th century
| Medium | black crayon on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 9 7/8 x 8 in. (25.1 x 20.3 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1845 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
School of Pietro da Cortona, Head and Shoulders of a Woman, 16th century, black crayon on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1845
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.
Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967.
William Anthony.. A New Approach to Figure Drawing.. New York: Crown Publishers.. 1965..
Stuart Preston.. "New York Letter: Late Limelight.:. Apollo.. Oct. 1965..
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Provenance
F. Abbott, Edinburgh (L. 970);* Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1921). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.
