File:Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio - Study for the Head of the Infant Christ at the Breast of the Virgin, c1490-1491 -Fondation Custodia 2886.jpg
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[edit]Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio: Study for the Head of the Infant Christ at the Breast of the Virgin
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Study for the Head of the Infant Christ at the Breast of the Virgin |
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| Object type | drawing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | circa 1490-1491 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | metalpoint on paper Metalpoint, heightened with white and pale pink bodycolour, on blue prepared paper. Framing lines in pen and black ink. Laid down | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 166 mm (6.53 in); width: 140 mm (5.51 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2886 |
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| Object history | Pierre Crozat, Paris; his sale Paris, P.-J. Mariette, 10 April–13 May 1741, possibly from lot 6 (or lots 4–7); Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran, Marquis de Lagoy, Aix-en-Provence (L.1710); Henry Danby Seymour, London; his brother, Alfred Seymour, Knoyle (L.176); by descent to Miss Jane Margaret Seymour; her sale ('by order of Miss Seymour's trustee'), London, Sotheby's, 26 April 1927, lot 24, as by Boltraffio, to Frits Lugt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions | On the verso, inscribed in pen and brown ink: “C’est une Etude très recherché, suivant l’usage de Leonard / de Vinci, pour un enfant jésus qui tètte ; et ce morceau / tiré du Cabinet de Mr. Croizat, est bien avéré de ce / grand maître, et seroit bien précieux sil il avoit un / peu plus conservé ; car ils y étoient très rares, malgré / l’abondance des autres grands Peintres."; below in pencil: "ook uit coll. Marquis de Lagoy" with an arrow pointing to a reproduction of his collector mark and: “[”¦] onder”?; below: “voor de Madonna Litta, st. Petersburg / zie ook Bernardo da Conti ? / Schilderij in coll. Poldo Pezzoli, / Milaan.”? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Study related to the "Madonna Litta" (a painting with a disputed attribution to Leonardo da Vinci or one of his followers, possibly Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio) in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (inv. no. 249) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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