Ottavio Maria Leoni (1587-1630)

Portrait of a lady, bust-length

Details

Ottavio Maria Leoni (1587-1630)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length
black and white chalk on blue paper, the upper corners cut
213 x 159 mm.

Provenance

Lord Chilston.
Professor Doctor Richard Krautheimer and Doctor Trude Krautheimer-Hess, Christie's New York, 19 January 1996, lot 56.

Exhibited

New York, Institute of Fine Arts, Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, 1961.
Durham, North Carolina, Duke University, Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, 1963, no. 14.

Lot Essay

The sitter in the present portrait resembles that of Angela Calzettara exhibited by W.R. Jeudwine in 1966, no. 13, and now in the Stanford University Museum of Art,, J.T. Spike, Baroque Portraiture in Italy, exhib. cat., University of California at Stanford, 1984-5, app. fig. 31, and the Lady with a veil in the Albertina, V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1994, II, no. 1736.
According to Professor Krautheimer's notes, Jacob Bean confirmed the attribution to Leoni in 1988.

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