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Head of a Youth
Attributed to Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi), Italian, 1501–1547
y1935-56
Information
Title
Head of a Youth
Maker
Attributed to Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Medium
Fresco transferred to canvas
Dimensions
sight: 40.7 x 53.4 cm (16 x 21 in.)
frame: 59 x 70.5 x 5 cm (23 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon, Jr.,Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-56
Place Collected
Europe, Italy, Rome
Culture
Materials
Paolo Borghese (1844-1920), Rome; Purchased by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) from "Borghese Collection Sale," Palazzo Borghese, in Rome, Italy, March 30, 1892 (Lot 193, as Giulio Romano, one of twenty-three frescoes transferred to canvas from the Villa Lante); Purchased from him by Henry White Cannon (1850-1934) in Florence on March 19, 1906; By descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 6; p. 48-50
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 15; p. 21-22; fig. 15
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 104
