DrawingsItalian16th century

Portrait of a Lady

16th century

Artists

Giovanni Antonio BoltraffioArtist

Bernardino LuiniPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Charcoal heightened with white chalk on buff antique laid paper, mounted overall to antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

38 × 28 cm (14 15/16 × 11 in.)

Provenance

Lord de l'Isle. John Postle Heseltine, London. Henry Oppenheimer, London, sold [through Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 117 (as Luini)]; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., 1936], sold; to The Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1936, gift; to The Fogg Art Museum, 1936

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