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Head of a Woman

Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · c. 1575

Provenance

Ownership history

Sold by the Squire Gallery to P.&D. Colnaghi and Company, London, May 12, 1936 [correspondence with Florian Härb of Colnaghi of June 8, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to Sir Thomas D. Barlow (died 1964), London, December 29, 1936 [Härb correspondence mentioned above]; Sir Thomas Barlow, to at least 1944 [Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944]. Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, by 1953 [London 1953]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 28, 1962, lot 21, to Richard Zinser, New York [curatorial notes]; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

London, P.&D. Colnaghi, "Exhibition of Old Master Drawings," November-December 1936, cat. 64.
London, Royal Academy, "Drawings by Old Masters," 1953, cat. 110.
London, P.&D. Colnaghi, "Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell," October 15-November 11, 1959, cat. 28.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 5 (ill. cover).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 4 (ill.).
Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Veronese and His Studio In North American Collections," October 1-November 15, 1972, cat. 58, by D. Rosand; traveled to Montgomery, Ala., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, December 5-31, 1972.
Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," September 21, 1974-April 20, 1975, cat. 22, by T. Pignatti; traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum; and the St. Louis Art Museum.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 26, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 28-29, cat. 3 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Veronese: Painter and Draftsman," November 13, 1988-February 20, 1989, cat. 60, cat. by W. R. Rearick.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

Literature

Published references

Hans Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries (New York, 1944), p. 345, no. 2097 (ill.).
L. Fröhlich-Bume, "Ausstellung der Sammlung Springell bei Colnaghi, London," Weltkunst XXIX (November 15, 1959), p. 10 (ill.).
Terisio Pignatti, Veronese, 2 vols. (Venice, 1976), no. A55, 1: 176, 2: fig. 769.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 28, no. 1E1.
Richard Cocke, Veronese’s Drawings with a Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1984), p. 302, no. 130 (ill.).
Terisio Pignatti and Giandomenico Romanelli, Drawings from Venice: Masterworks from the Museo Correr, Venice (New York, 1985), p. 25, no. 15 (ill.).
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. 253-54, no. 329 (ill.).

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