Portrait of a Boy in Profile

Provenance

Antonio Badile II [1424 - 1507/1512], Verona, his descendents; probably Ludovico Moscardo (in the so-called Moscardo album) (Lugt 2990b), by descent to Mario Miniscalchi Erizzo [1881-1957], Verona; Francis Matthiesen Gallery, London (1954); the private financier of hte Matthiesen purchase chose this drawing for himself in partial repayment; (sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1982, lot 20); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 2014.

Portrait of a Boy in Profile

Badile, Giovanni

1440s

Accession Number

2014.9.1

Medium

pen and tip of the brush with brown ink over lead point (laid on later blue paper)

Dimensions

overall: 20.7 × 15.4 cm (8 1/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner