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The sculpture is a bust of a woman, focusing on her head and shoulders. She has a high forehead with slightly curling hair pulled back under a smooth cap. Her face includes thin eyebrows, a long nose, a slightly cleft chin, and lips set in a neutral expression. Her eyes are blank, without a visible pupil or iris. Her clothing appears to be an intricately detailed dress, featuring floral patterns and slightly puffed sleeves. The sculpture is carved from a smooth, light-colored material.
National Gallery of Art · Sculpture
A Lady
Circle of Andrea del Verrocchio
- Date
- 1475/1485
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- overall: 53 x 48.8 x 19.9 cm (20 7/8 x 19 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Classification
- Sculpture · Bust
- Accession number
- 1939.1.326
- Credit line
- Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Time span
- 1401 to 1500
- Department
- CSD
Subjects and terms
- Florentine
- female
- portrait
- European Sculpture 1300-1800
- Renaissance
- Vespucci
Provenance
Alessandro Castellani [1823-1883], Paris and Rome. Baron Arthur de Schickler [1828-1919], Paris, and Martinvast, Normandy (near Cherbourg); by inheritance to his daughter, Marguerite, Comtesse Hubert de Pourtalès [1870-1956], Paris, and Martinvast, Normandy. (Duveen Brothers, Inc, London, New York, and Paris). Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Rosyln, New York, at least from 1923 until 1929; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1936 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, _Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century_, 1976: 21.
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