Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Facing Right, in Profile

Piasecka Johnson estate

by descent to his widow Anna Maria de Groote, then probably to their elder son, Everhard Jabach (1658–1721), Paris. Pierre Crozat (1665–1740), Paris, from between 1695 and 1721

by descent to his son-in-law, Henri Dumesnil (1823–1898), Paris [stamps (Lugt 739), recto, lower left and lower right, in black]

Everhard Jabach (1618–1695), Paris [his posthumous inventory of 1695 (as Dürer)]

sold through Sotheby’s, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Louis Franck, et al., Léonardo de Vinci, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2019), p. 38 (as part of a group of works by either Leonardo da Vinci or Verrocchio).

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo, Mar. 9–July 14, 2019, cat. 9.6 (as Verrocchio).

Carmen Bambach, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2019), vol. 4: 105, note 410 (as anonymous artist in Verrocchio's workshop).

Warsaw, The Royal Castle, Mistrzowie rysunku: dziela z kolekcji Barbary Piaseckiej-Johnson, Dec. 4, 2010–Feb. 6, 2011, pp. 100–01 (ill.) (as Leonardo).

Gauthier Aubert, “From Crozat to The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes: The Origins of the Drawings Collection of the Marquis De Robien,” Master Drawings, XLV: 1 (Spring 2007), p. 95.

Lise Bicart-Sée, “Some Archival References for Jean-Baptiste- François Nourri,” Master Drawings, XLV: 1 (Spring 2007), p. 88.

Bernadette Py, “Everhard Jabach: Supplement of Identifiable Drawings from the 1695 Estate Inventory,” Master Drawings, XLV: 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 6, 36, note 15.

Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), pp. 116, 119, under note 18, p. 285, under no. 15.

Leonardo de Vinci. Dessins et manuscrits, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 56, under note 7, p. 64 under no. 7, p. 57 and note 18 (as Leonardo).

Bernadette Py, Everhard Jabach, collectionneur (1618–1695) (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001), pp. 20, 274.

Florence, Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, Leonardo da Vinci, Mostra di disegni, manoscritti e documenti, Apr. 15–Oct. 31, 1952, cat. 10 (as Leonardo).

A. E. Popham, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945), pp. 11–13.

Kenneth Clark, Leonardo da Vinci (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939), p. 12, under note 1 (as Leonardo).

Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938; reprinted in Italian, 1961), vol. I: p. 62, vol. II: no. 1071D, vol. III: fig. 527 (as Leonardo).

by descent to his son, Marquis Jean Louis de Ganay (1922–2013), Paris

Possibly, Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de più eccellenti Pittori Scultori ed Architettori (Florence: Gaetano Milanesi, 1906), 4: p. 20.

sold, Paris, May 10–12, 1900, lot 251 (as Leonardo), to Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn (1870–1939), Paris [according to Lugt 739]

sold, Paris, Apr. 10, 1741, part of lot 5 (as Leonardo), to Jean-Baptiste-François Nourri (1697–1784), Paris. Pierre Defer (1798–1870), Paris

Pietro Marani, Leonardo una carriera di pittore (Milano: Federico Motta, 1999), pp. 14–18 (as Verrocchio and his workshop).

David Allan Brown, Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 76–82 (discusses the group exhibited in 1989 and attributes it to Verrocchio and his workshop).

David Scrase, “Paris and Lille: Leonardo, Italian Drawings,” The Burlington Magazine, 132:1043 (Feb. 1990), p. 151–53 (as Leonardo).

Keith Christiansen, “Leonardo’s Drapery Studies,” The Burlington Magazine 132: 1049 (Aug. 1990), p. 572 (as Verrocchio).

Paris, Louvre, Leonardo de Vinci: les études de draperies, Dec. 5, 1989–Feb. 26, 1990, cat. 11 (as Leonardo).

Leonardo da Vinci, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the South Bank Centre, 1989), p. 50, under cat. 3 (as Leonardo).

sold, Sotheby’s, Monaco, Dec. 1, 1989, lot 74 (as Leonardo), to Barbara Piasecka Johnson (1937–2013), Princeton, NJ

Jean Cadogan, “Linen Drapery Studies by Verrocchio, Leonardo and Ghirlandaio,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 46 (1983), p. 59, fig. 27 (as Leonardo).

Alessandro Vezzosi and Carlo Pedretti, Leonardo’s Return to Vinci, The Countess of Béhague Collection (New York: Johnson reprint corporation, 1981), p. 20, fig. 1 (as Leonardo).

Vinci, Castello dei Conti, La Raccolta Leonardesca della Contessa de Béhague, Apr.–July 1980, p. 18, fig. 1 (as Leonardo).

Gigetta Dalli Regoli, “Il piegar de’panni,” Critica d’Arte, XXII (Nov.–Dec. 1976), p. 36, no. 150, fig. 1, pp. 47-48, under note 16 (mentions de Ganay group and attributes them to Leonardo).

Carlo Ragghianti and Gigetta Dalli Regoli, Firenze 1470–1480, disegni dal modello (Pisa: University of Pisa, 1975), p. 31, under note 10 (as Leonardo).