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.

Heads of the Virgin and St. Anne

Giacomo Francia
before 1486-1557

Heads of the Virgin and St. Anne

7 7/8 x 14 3/8 inches (199 x 365 mm)
Black and white chalk, on blue laid paper altered to gray-brown.
1992.112

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, on made up section, in pen and brown ink, cut off; on verso, at upper left, in black chalk, "55? Andrea del Sarto."; at upper right, in pencil, "23" (encircled); at center, "N [o superscript] 48" (cancelled); beneath this, "N [o superscript] 39"; to the right, "44"; at lower left, "5" (encircled).
Associated names
Goodyear, A. Conger (Anson Conger), 1877-1964, former owner.
Backus, former owner.
Baer, Curtis O., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Scholz 1964, no. 63
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department