Bust of a Youth Looking Upward [recto]

c. 1500

Luca Signorelli

Artist, Cortonese, 1445/1450 - 1523

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Artwork overview

Associated Artworks

Two Nude Figures [verso]

Luca Signorelli

1500

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Archibald George Blomefield Russell [born 1879], London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 May 1928, lot 89); De Clementi; John Nicholas Brown, Providence [1900-1979]; (David Tunick, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 13 August 1986; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1929.

1931

  • Rhode Island Shool of Design, 1931.

1950

  • Masterpieces of Drawings: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1950-1, no. 19.

1962

  • Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1962, no. 32.

1973

  • 100 Master Drawings from New England Private Collection, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford and tour, 1973-74, no. 1.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 4.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 5.

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 20.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1938

  • Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: 3: fig. 94.

1947

  • Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York, 1947: no. 22.

1961

  • Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini. Revised and amplified ed. Milan, 1961: 2: 564, no. 2509F; 3: fig. 99.

1988

  • Cummings, Paul. "Interview: Ian Woodner Talks with Paul Cummings." Drawing. IX, 5 (1988): 110.

1994

  • Cappel, Carmen Bambach. "On 'La testa proportionalmente degradata'--Luca Signorelli, Leonardo, and Piero della Francesca's De Prospectiva Pingendi," Florentine Drawing at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Villa Spelman Colloquia 4(1994): 42, fig.21.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 20.

  • Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17 (September-October 1995): 49-53 (repr. verso fig. 5).

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Wikidata ID

Q64594064

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