Head of a Woman

c. 1495-97

Medium	Metalpoint heightened with white on gray prepared paper
Dimensions	5 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (15 x 12.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.1470
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Head of a Woman, c. 1495-97, Metalpoint heightened with white on gray prepared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1470

Select Bibliography

Bambach, Carmen C., ed. Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. C., S. The Vasari Society for the Reproductions of Drawings by the Old Masters. Part 10. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 191415. Suida, William. Leonardo und sein Kreis. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1929. Hubbard, Guy. "Teaching with Art: Structure in Drawing." Arts and Activities (April 1984): 36–38. Bora, Giulio, et al. Disegni e dipinti leonardeschi dall collezioni milanesi. Exhibition catalogue. Milan: Civiche Raccolte d'arte, 1987. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Tritty-Coohill, Patricia. "The Formation of American Collections of Drawings by Leonardo and His Circle." Achademia Leonardi da Vinci: Journal of Leonardo Studies and Bibliography of Vinciana 2 (1989): 15965 and unpaginated figures. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015. Ballarin, Alessandro. Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio prima delle pala Casio. Pittura del Rinascimento nell'Italia settentrionale 7. Cittadella: Bertoncello artigrafiche, 1996. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fifteen: Italian Paintings and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. 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. Villata, Edoardo and Simone Baiocco. Gaudenzio Ferrari Gerolamo Giovenone: Un Avvio e un percorso. Torino and New York: Umberto Allemandi & Co. 2004. 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. Syson, Luke, and Larry Keith. Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. Exhibition catalogue. London: National Gallery Company; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely, London (L. 2092);* A.J. Ram, London (according to S.C. in Vasari Society);* Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1917). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956. *S.C. {probably Sidney Colvin}, The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, 10 (London, 1914–15), no. 6 {illustrated in facsimile; as probably not by Boltraffio}.