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Portrait of a Boy in Profile

Giovanni Badile1440s

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

  • Title: Portrait of a Boy in Profile
  • Creator: Giovanni Badile
  • Date Created: 1440s
  • Physical Dimensions: overall: 20.7 × 15.4 cm (8 1/8 × 6 1/16 in.)
  • 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.
  • Rights: CC0
  • Medium: pen and tip of the brush with brown ink over lead point (laid on later blue paper)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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