Portrait of a Lady
Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, Detroit Institute of Arts, June 1-September 15, 1950, no. 43, erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Five Centuries of Drawings, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, September 9-October 22, 1953, no. 43, erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance: A Detroit Adventure in the Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 5-May 8, 1960, no. 10, erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Bacchiacca and his Friends, Baltimore Museum of Art, January 10-February 19, 1961, no. 61, as after Andrea del Sarto, as Portrait of a Lady.
John Barnard (1709-1784), London, by 1784;
Thomas Dimsdale (1758-1823), London, by 1823;
Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880), London, by 1880;
His posthumous sale, Drawings by Old Masters, Engravings, Etchings, and Portraits; Being the Sixth Portion of the Collection of Works of Art formed during a series of years by that well-known Connoisseur Charles Sackville Bale, Esq., Deceased, Christie’s, London, June 9-14, 1881, lot 2453, as by Andrea del Sarto, as A Female Head;
John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London, by 1913;
Purchased at his sale, Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School forming part of the Collection of J.P. Heseltine, London, 1913, lot 1, as by Andrea del Sarto, as Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Lucrezia del Fede, by P. and D. Colnaghi and Company, London;
Henry Oppenheimer (1859-1932), London, by 1932;
Purchased at his posthumous sale, The Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Christie’s, London, July 13, 1936, lot 174, as by Andrea del Sarto, as Portrait of a Woman, by R.E. Arnsley-Wilson, London, 1936-December 26, 1944 [1];
Purchased from Savile Gallery, through Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. S303, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944 [2].
NOTES:
[1] Arnsley-Wilson was a London art dealer who ran the Savile Gallery.
[2] Durlacher Brothers, New York, had the drawing on consignment from the Savile Gallery as of July 1937. Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-66, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.
Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School forming part of the Collection of J.P. Heseltine (London: J.J. Waddington, 1913), unpaginated, (repro.), erroneously as by Andrea del Sarto, as Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Lucrezia del Fede.
Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer (London: Christie’s, July 10-14, 1936), 91, erroneously as by Andrea del Sarto, as Portrait of a Woman.
Alfred Frankfurter, “A Missionary Show of Old Drawings Introducing Masters from the XIII to the XIX Century,” Art News (November 20, 1937): 7, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
“Portrait of a Lady: A Drawing by Jacopo Pontormo,” Christian Science Monitor (February 11, 1938): 8, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: Amplified Edition, vol. 2, Catalogue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938), p. 13, no. 140A, erroneously as by Andrea del Sarto.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 125, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950), unpaginated, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Five Centuries of Drawings, exh. cat. (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1953), unpaginated, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 65, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Joy Hakanson, “Yankee ‘Mystic’ Solos at New Park Gallery,” The Detroit News (April 24, 1960): 14-F, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance: A Detroit Adventure in the Arts, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1960), 13, 28, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
Horizon (Fall 1961).
Bernard Berenson, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, vol. 2, Catalogo (Milan: Electa Editrice S.p.A., 1961), p. 25, no. 129C, erroneously as by Andrea del Sarto, as Testa di donna, forse per uno dei ritratti di Lucrezia del Fede.
Gertrude Rosenthal, Bacchiacca and his Friends: Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1961), 59, as after Andrea del Sarto, as Portrait of a Lady.
Sydney Joseph Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto: catalogue raisonné, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963), pp. 76-77, as a copy after Andrea del Sarto.
Janet Cox-Rearick, The Drawings of Pontormo, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964), p. 394, no. A205, as a copy after Andrea del Sarto.
John Shearman, Andrea del Sarto, vol. 2 (Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1965), 383, as a copy after Andrea del Sarto.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 177, (repro.), erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait of a Lady.
James Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, vol. 1, Text (Paris: Institut Néerlandais, 1983), 27, 27n2, erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo.
Janet Cox-Rearick, The Drawings of Pontormo: A Catalogue Raisonné with Notes on the Paintings, vol. 1, Text (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1981), pp. 394, 435, no. A205, erroneously as by Jacopo Pontormo, as Portrait study of a woman.
