Six Studies of an Old Woman's Head
c. 1625-30
Artists
Dimensions
37.4 x 23.7 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Probably Comte de Caylus, Paris (L. 474, lower right).[1] Unidentified Collector (L. 525, lower right). Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (L. 2364, lower center). Unidentified Collector (probably L. 3172, lower right). [Otto and Anne Wertheimer, Paris], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1976 (L. 3306, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Jeff Coolidge, Harvard Class of 1954, 2011.513.
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