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Profile Portrait of a Woman

Artist Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486 - 1530)
Date16th century
MediumRed chalk
DimensionsOverall: 6 15/16 × 5 3/8 inches (17.62 × 13.65 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/76
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Exhibition History

Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Golden Gate International Exposition, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1940, no. 94, as Head of a Woman.

Master Drawings: 15th to the 19th Centuries, Schaeffer Galleries, New York, 1941.

Portland, 1946.

Centennial Loan Exhibition: Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 19-June 11, 1961; Wildenstein and Company, June 14-September 9, 1961, no. 11, as Portrait Study of a Woman.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951.

Kansas City Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Privately Owned in the Greater Kansas City Area, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 22-February 28, 1965, no. 66.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 7, as Profile Portrait of a Woman.

Provenance

Dr. Henry Wellesley (1791-1866), Oxford, UK, by 1866 [1];

Richard Johnson (d. ca. 1877), Kemnal Manor, Chislehurst, London, UK, by 1877 [2];

Henry Oppenheimer (1859-1932), London, by 1932 [3];

LeRoy Manson Backus (1914-1971), Seattle;

Purchased from Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, March 26, 1951-1980;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 1384

[2] Lugt 2216

[3] Lugt 1351
Published References

Annemarie Henle, Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, Palace of Fine Arts, 1940), 23, 33, (repro.), as Head of a Woman.

Master Drawings: 15th to the 19th Centuries, exh. cat. (New York: Schaeffer Galleries, 1941).

Centennial Loan Exhibition: Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, exh. cat. (Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1961), unpaginated, (repro.), as Portrait Study of a Woman.

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 14-15, (repro.), as Profile Portrait of a Woman.

Ralph T. Coe, Kansas City Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Privately Owned in the Greater Kansas City Area, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1965).

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