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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Italian, 1466 or 1467–1516
Head of a Woman
c. 1495-97

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
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

Select Bibliography

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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fifteen: Italian Paintings and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. 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. 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. 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., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 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. 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. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Ballarin, Alessandro. Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio prima delle pala Casio. Pittura del Rinascimento nell'Italia settentrionale 7. Cittadella: Bertoncello artigrafiche, 1996. Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015. Bambach, Carmen C., ed. Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Villata, Edoardo and Simone Baiocco. Gaudenzio Ferrari Gerolamo Giovenone: Un Avvio e un percorso. Torino and New York: Umberto Allemandi & Co. 2004. 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.

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}.