1979.67: Head of a Woman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.67

People

Giovanni Battista di Jacopo called Rosso Fiorentino, Italian (Florence, Italy 1494 - 1540 Fontainebleau, France)

Title

Head of a Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295801

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on buff antique laid paper

Dimensions

17.6 × 14.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, graphite: pisa styl DOS 7 69A 1635 Beau Bri sans colori w. e. / beau bris sans col

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.67

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 4, p. 18, and p.9, repr. pl. 4
• Review of "Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection", Drawing (November 1984 - December 1984), vol. 6, no. 4, p. 87, repr.
• Eugene A. Carroll, Rosso Fiorentino: Drawings, Prints, and Decorative Arts, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1987), cat. no. 46, pp. 138-139. repr., and pp. 23 and under cat. no. 50, pp. 148-151
• David Franklin, Review: "Rosso at the National Gallery of Art", The Burlington Magazine (April 1988), Vol. 130, No. 1021, pp. 323-236, pp. 325-326, repr. p. 326 as fig. 88
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 27, n.p., and pp. 13 and 32, repr. (color)
• Creighton Gilbert, "Un viso quasiche di furia", Michelangelo Drawings; Studies in the History of Art, ed. Craig Hugh Smyth, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1992), vol. 33, pp. 213-225, p. 217, repr. fig. 3
• Michael Miller, Review of "Rosso Fiorentino. Drawings, Prints, and Decorative Arts", Master Drawings (Spring 1992), vol. 30, no. 1, p. 112
• David Franklin, Rosso in Italy: The Italian Career of Rosso Fiorentino, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1994), pp. 146, 155 and 241, repr. pl. 109, p. 146
• Paul Joannides, Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries Publishers (Washington, D.C. and London, England, 1996), under cat. no. 2, p. 40
• Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Alexander Perrig, Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, exh. cat., Saarland Museum and Prestel-Verlag (Saarbrücken and Munich/New York, 1997), cat. no. 79, p. 228, repr. color
• Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos [Gallery guide], brochure, Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken, Germany, 1997), repr. in color, n.p.
• Ann H. Sievers, Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art, Hudson Hills Press/Smith College Museum of Art (New York, NY and Northampton, MA, 2000), p. 38
• David Franklin, ed., Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada/Yale University Press (Ottawa, 2005), p. 19, fig. 2

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984
• Rosso Fiorentino: Drawings, Prints, and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 10/25/1987 - 01/03/1988

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