DrawingsItalian16th century

Profile Head of a Woman

16th century

Artists

Michelangelo BuonarrotiArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink over black and red chalks on off-white antique laid paper, laid down overall

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

18 × 17.5 cm (7 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Provenance

G.A.G. Weigel (Lugt 2554). Adelbert von Lanna, Prague (Lugt 2773). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Related Artworks

Drawings

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Luca Cambiaso, 16th century

Brown ink, with brown wash on cream antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Sisto Badalocchio, 16th-17th century

Brown ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper

16th-17th centuryItalian

Drawings

Column Base from the Inside of the Temple of Marte Ultore; verso: Column Base

Sangallo family, 16th century

Brown ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper inlaid into off-white antique laid album page; verso: brown ink, incised, off-white antique laid album page incised

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Frieze of Acanthus Scroll with Putti, Animals and Birds

Giulio Romano, 16th century

Brown ink and black chalk with traces of white gouache on cream antique laid paper, lined overall with Japanese paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

The Cortile del Belvedere; verso: The Pyramid of Cestius and the Porta San Paolo

Giovanni Battista Naldini, c.1552-1553

Brown ink with traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink with traces of black chalk

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

The Rape of Europa

Giulio Romano, 16th century

Brown ink over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Saint John in the Wilderness

Annibale Carracci, 16th-17th century

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on buff antique laid paper

16th-17th centuryItalian

Drawings

Head of a Child

Unidentified Artist, 16th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, inlaid into similar cream antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Two Men Kneeling in Prayer; verso: Acanthus Leaves and a Decorative Motif of Fruit and Leaves

Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), 16th century

Brown ink (brown wash added later?) on off-white antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Study Sheet

Perino del Vaga, 16th century

Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Head of a Bearded Man

Battista Franco, 16th century

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid decorative mount

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Unidentified Artist, 16th-17th century

Red chalk, brown ink and brown wash with some white gouache on cream antique laid paper, laid down

16th-17th centuryItalian