Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Andrea del Sarto. The drawing is of the head of a boy. He has curly, rather unruly hair. His featured are soft and slightly smudged, so that the details of his eyes, for example, are indistinct. The boy is smiling with parted lips.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"5.
ANDREA DEL SARTO
(b. 1486; d. 1531)
HEAD OF A BOY
Collection of Henry Oppenheimer, Esq. From the Lankrink, Warwick, and Heseltine Collections. Black chalk. 26.5 x 21.6 cm. (10 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.).
As pointed out by Mr. Berenson, this is a study for the head of 'S. Giovanni fanicullo che ride' (Vasari) in the fresco of the Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John painted by Andrea del Sarto in an open-air shrine outside the Porta à Pinti at Florence - a fresco now destroyed, but known from several old copies, one, a drawing in the Albertina, reproduced by Knapp, Andrea del Sarto, p. 57. In a preliminary design for the composition, formerly in the Heseltine Collection, now in the British Museum, the head of St. John differs from that in this drawing and the finished version.
T. B.
[Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, I, p. 284, note, and II, p. 8, No. 139; Knapp, Andrea del Sarto, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1907, p. 135; Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School, forming part of the Collection of J. P. H(eseltine). Printed privately. London, 1913, No. 4. Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-8, No. 554.]"
Technique: reproduction
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Andrea del Sarto, Head of a Boy (1921.32). |