Half-Length of Mary Magdalene [verso]

c. 1565/1567

Federico Barocci

Artist, Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40 x 27.4 cm (15 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.17.1.b


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Stefan von Licht, Vienna (Lugt Supp.789b)(sale, Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt-am-Main, 7 December 1927, no. 90); Prof. Otto Benesch, Vienna; Private Collection, Stockholm; Edmund Pillsbury; NGA purchase in 1983.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci, Selected Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, no. 18

1984

  • Correggio and His Legacy, Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma (catalogue in Italian), 1984, no. 96.

Inscriptions

upper left in brown ink, upside down: Barocci

Watermarks

Crossed arrows

Wikidata ID

Q64561224


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