VENETIAN SCHOOL
Circa 1490
Head of a Youth Looking up to the Left
Black chalk, with ruled stylus indications, the upper corners cut; on the remnants of a Vasari (?) mount
8 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches
202 x 157 mm
Provenance
A sixteenth-century Italian collector, his framing lines and traces of ornament in pen (believed by John Gere to have been by Giorgio Vasari [1511-1574])
Frederick B. Adams, New York
H. M. Calmann, London, from whom purchased in 1973
Ian Woodner (1903-1990), New York,
Thence by descent until 2014
Exhibitions
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, 1 February – 31 March 1985, no. 74 (checklist)
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten. Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, 25 March – 25 May 1986, p. 249, cat. no. VIII
Madrid, Museo del Prado, Dibujos de los Siglos XVI al XX. Coleccion Woodner, 4 December 1986 – 31 January 1987, cat. no. 11
EVEILLARD COLLECTION, NEW YORK, PROMISED GIFT TO THE FRICK COLLECTION