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Death Mask of a Woman
Circle of Lavinia Fontana · c. 1605
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frederick R. Aikman; Puttick & Simpson, London, sold, Mar. 14, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Angela Ghirardi, "Una pittrice bolognese nella Roma del Seicento: Lavinia Fontana," Il Carrobbio 10 (1985), pp. 150-61.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 107-08, no. 136 (ill.).
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