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Head of a young girl having her hair plaited

Maker

(artist)
1550-1606

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1563-1610

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1575 - 1600

Medium

black chalk on laid paper with brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away, laid down on Seilern mount

Dimensions

Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 10.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.104

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This exquisite drawing shares similarities with two sketches at the Uffizi (inv. nos. 6398 F and 8497 S) featuring studies of young girls’ heads. As their conventional pose suggests, Boscoli may have sketched them in preparation for portraits. In the Courtauld’s sheet, two hands behind the sitter, apparently belonging to another unseen figure, are plaiting her hair. The softer modelling calls to mind the drawing style of Santi di Tito, with whom Boscoli trained.    

Provenance

Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio, Turin (1719-1795), L.545 (lower right); Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; purchased from her by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), October 1952 (35,000 francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Brooks, Julian, The drawings of Andrea Boscoli (c.1560–1608), PhD thesis, University of Oxford 1999; 1
pp. 60 and 347

Forlani, Anna, 'Andrea Boscoli' in 'Proporzioni', 1963 - 85-208; IV
p. 155, no. 202

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 104
pl. LXIV
dated late 16th c.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Inscription: none on recto, unable to see the verso.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio (L.545).

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