Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Head of Christ. Verso: Bust of a Woman Wearing a Crown; a Sculptured Head; and a Nude Figure Carrying Another

Bernardo Strozzi
1581-1644

Head of Christ. Verso: Bust of a Woman Wearing a Crown; a Sculptured Head; and a Nude Figure Carrying Another

15 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches (396 x 262 mm)
Black, red and white chalk, on light brown paper.
1973.1

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

Notes
Watermark: Crossbow in a circle, surmounted by trefoil. Watermark, beta radiograph. circle, crossbow, trefoil. 142705wm_1973_1_WM_beta.jpg
Study for "Christ and the Woman of Samaria", the painting now in the Bob Jones University Museum, Greenville, South Carolina.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "P.G. no. 50".
Associated names
Marignane, Maurice, 1879-1956, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 182.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974. Vol. 2: Drawings, no. 12, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department