Italian School
16th cent
Head and Shoulders of the Virgin or a Female Saint Looking Upward
ca. 1520-1535
Diameter: 4 inches (102 mm)
Pen and brown ink, and blue, pink, red, and yellow watercolor on paper; later marks in graphite over figures's right eye; trimmed to a circle.
1986.72
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
The drawing was acquired as by Raffaellino del Garbo (Florence 1466-ca. 1524 Florence). It is a copy of the head of the Virgin in the miraculous image of the Annunciation to the Virgin frescoed in the church Santissima Annunziata, Florence.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscribed on verso, in graphite: "Ex. Coll. Savoia; Aosta//Florentine, Late Xve/around Raffaellino del Garbo".
Inscribed on verso, in graphite: "Ex. Coll. Savoia; Aosta//Florentine, Late Xve/around Raffaellino del Garbo".
Associated names
Garbo, Raffaellino del, 1466 or 1476-1524, Formerly attributed to.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Savoia-Genova, Tommaso di, 1854-1931, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Savoia-Genova, Tommaso di, 1854-1931, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Los Angeles and Elsewhere 1967-68, no. 50 (as Raffaellino del Garbo); Fellows Report 1989, 341 (as Raffaellino del Garbo).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 341.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 341.
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