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Italian School
16th century
Head of a Woman? Turned to the Left
Black and white chalk on three pieces of paper joined horizontally at top and vertically at right.
14 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (299 x 220 mm)
Gift of Dr. Marietta Lutze-Sackler.
1991.12
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Acquired as Andrea del Sarto, Florence 1486-1530 Florence.
The drawing was sold in 1919 as by Sodoma.

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Inscribed on verso at lower right, in pen and black ink, "Elisabeths Giaconda / after Giacomo"; at lower left, in graphite, "#12".
Watermark: Six-pointed star in a circle, centered on chain line.

Provenance: 
Karl Ernst Henrici (1854-1915), Berlin; his sale, Berlin, Werner Haehnel, 21 June 1919, lot 198, repr., as Sodoma, Head of a young woman; Dr. Marietta Lutze-Sackler, New York.
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Sarto, Andrea del, 1486-1530, Formerly attributed to.
Sodoma, 1477?-1549, Formerly attributed to.
Henrici, Karl Ernst, former owner.
Lutze-Sackler, Marietta, former owner.

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