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Head of a Youth

Lorenzo di Credi (Italian, about 1456–1536)
about 1500

Medium/Technique Silverpoint, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on paper prepared with a gray ground
Dimensions Sheet (sight): 22.5 x 19.4 cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Framed: 38.4 x 35 cm (15 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.592
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Macandrew 002
ProvenanceJonathan Richardson, Sr. (b. 1667 - d. 1745), London (Lugt 2183); January 22 - February 11, 1747, probably included in the posthumous Richardson sale, Mr. Cock, London, and sold to John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland (b. 1696 - d. 1779), London [see note 1]. Sir Edward John Poynter (b. 1836 - d. 1919), London (Lugt 874). By 1911, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA [see note 2]; 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 15, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] See Carole Taylor, "John (Manners), 3rd Duke of Rutland: British Art Collector," Journal of the History of Collections 29, no. 2 (2017): pp. 237-250, esp. Table 1 and Appendix 1. Manners purchased £86 worth of drawings at the Richardson sale. [2] First lent to the MFA on June 22, 1911.