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Head of a Girl
16th century
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
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
Select Bibliography
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. 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.
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.