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Drawing

ca. 1575-1619 (made)
Artist/Maker
Carracci, Lodovico (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (drawn)

Figure of a (falling?) nude man in a kneeling attitude, who holds his left hand to his head; On the reverse, a study of another falling figure, and also studies of hands; Black chalk.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Black chalk
Black Chalk
Drawing
Brief description
Carracci, Lodovico; Figure of a (falling?) nude man in a kneeling attitude, who holds his left hand to his head; On the reverse, a study of another falling figure, and also studies of hands; Black chalk; Italian; ca. 1575-1619.
Physical description
Figure of a (falling?) nude man in a kneeling attitude, who holds his left hand to his head; On the reverse, a study of another falling figure, and also studies of hands; Black chalk.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.7in
  • Width: 10.2in
Original measurements converted from fractional inches into decimal inches (rounded to one decimal place). Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Style
Bolognese School
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Padre Resta, Earl Spencer (Lugt 1532); A. P. F. Robert-Dumesnil (Lugt 2200); Dyce Bequest 1869
Subjects depicted
Nude
Man
Bibliographic references
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, p. 32-33, cat. n. 657, illus. The following is the full text of the entry: CARRACCI, LODOVICO (1555-1609) 657 Recto Study of a winged male figure falling head first, with another falling figure behind in the background Black chalk 14 5/8 x 10 (371 x 254) Dyce 297 Verso Study of a recumbent male nude, foreshortened, with the head projecting into the foreground; in the left margin two studies of clenched hands, one holding a tool, probably a pestle; in the top left hand corner two smaller studies of grasping hat cancelled by crossing out in black chalk Inscribed along the top margin in ink in an old hand 'Icaro di Mano di Lod. Caracci' and again in a different hand nearer the middle of the sheet 'Lod0 Caracci doppo visto Annibale' PROVENANCE Earl Spencer (Lugt 1532); A. P. F. Robert-Dumesnil (Lugt 2200); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 297 (as by Lodovico Carracci) The sheet has been torn into four roughly equal pieces and subsequently pieced together by pasting strips of paper along the rents, on each side alternately, in such a way as to cut across the drawings as little as possible. The studies do not appear to be connected with any surviving or recorded work of Lodovico or Annibale Carracci. In spite of the reference to Icarus in one the inscriptions on the verso, the main figure on the recto cannot be definitely identified as Icarus, since it is accompanied by another falling figure, which does not seem to be an alternative study, but looks though it were intended to be seen in the background, at a distance. The studies may perhaps have been made for a fall of the angels. The main figure seems to have wings and cannot therefore represent Phaethon or one of the giants overthrown by Jupiter or one of the damned in a Last Judgment.
  • Warwick, G.; The Formation and Early Provenance of Padre Sebastiano Resta's Drawing Collection, Master Drawings, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 239-278
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.297

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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