The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left
Giovanni Antonio BoltraffioWW-1490-535428
1490·Silverpoint and leadpoint, highlighted with white gouache, on pale blue-gray (indigo) prepared paper. Media tested by the Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS); October 1, 2019.·Overall: 5 3/16 x 4 in. (13.2 x 10.2 cm)
Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917
Catalogue
- Year
- 1490
- Dimensions
- Overall: 5 3/16 x 4 in. (13.2 x 10.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Painting
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci. Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini are the strongest artistic personalities to emerge from Leonardo's studio. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was of an aristocratic family and was born in Milan.
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- 1490
- Dimensions
- Overall: 5 3/16 x 4 in. (13.2 x 10.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1490-535428
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- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
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