Unknown
Head of a Girl
16th century
| Medium | metalpoint and light brown wash heightened with white on grayish-brown prepared paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 9 1/8 x 7 1/16 in. (23.2 x 17.9 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1849 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Unknown, Head of a Girl, 16th century, metalpoint and light brown wash heightened with white on grayish-brown prepared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1849
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.
Fernandez, Rafael. A Scene of Light and Glory: Approaches to Venice. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982.
John Postle Heseltine.. Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Schools of North Italy in the Collection of J. P. H.. London.. 1906..
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
Sir Andrew Fountaine (according to Heseltine); J. P. Heseltine (L. 1507, on reverse);* Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1913). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.
