Study of a Woman's Head and of a Child's Head (Madonna and Child?) Artist: Unknown(North Italian, Veneto or Piedmont)
Artist, formerly attributed to: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venice, ca. 1488–1576)

Medium

Black chalk heightened with white on blue/gray paper

Dimensions

sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 7/16 in. (32.6 × 24 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

1956.9.67

Geography
Culture
Period

16th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Pierre Lorillard; Earl of Dalhousie (L. 717a); [?Sotheby's, London, 23 February 1955?]; Leroy Backus; Schaeffer Galleries, New York, from whom acquired.
Bibliography
  • John J. Marciari, Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings before 1850 in the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2015), 162–63, fig. 31.2
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Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Inscriptions

Annotated w/ pen and brown ink BR: " Andrea Del Sarto"; \r\nand on reverse, top C: " Andrea De Sart 172"

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