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Drawing

ca.1540-1594 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Study of a male figure, the hands tied behind and the head inclined as if from pain. Nude, except for drapery round the loins; On the reverse, study of a nude male figure, with his knees giving way under him; Very slight; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white
Brief description
Tintoretto, Jacopo; Study of male figure, hands tied behind and the head inclined; On the reverse, study of a nude male figure; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white; Venetian School; ca.1540-1594.
Physical description
Study of a male figure, the hands tied behind and the head inclined as if from pain. Nude, except for drapery round the loins; On the reverse, study of a nude male figure, with his knees giving way under him; Very slight; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.1in
  • Width: 7.3in
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
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • 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.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume I. 14th-16th century, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1979, p. 160. The text is as follows: INTORETTO, JACOPO Jacopo Robusti (1518-94) 336 Recto Christ at the column Inscribed in ink ‘G. Tintoretto’ (in the same hand as no. 328) Black chalk with slight traces of white heighteneing on faded blue paper 12 5/8 x 7 3/8 (321 x 187) Dyce 244 Verso Study of a figure of Atlas Black chalk PROVENANCE Sir J. Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 244 (as by Tintoretto); Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, no. 1843 and pl. 127/1 (as Tintoretto school) The recto is a study for the Scourging of Christ in the Haussmann Collection, Berlin (1931). The picture is published as Tintoretto by Herman Voss in an article on Dr Fritz Haussmann’s Collection in Zeitschrift für blidende Künste, 65, 1931-32, p. 163. Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, who pointed out the connection of the drawing with the picture, ascribe both to the Tintoretto studio. The head and arms of the figure on the verso are so sketchily drawn that it is hard to say exactly what the artist intended; but the figure seems to belong to a group of drawings that were probably made from a piece of sculpture representing a man bowed own by a physical or mental burden, possibly Atlas. There is, as Dr Liebman has shown, a 16th century bronze of such a figure in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. It represents a bent old man with saggin knees, leaning a stick, with his left hand above his head. (M. J. Liebman in Soobscheniya Akademiya Nauk Institut Istorii Iskusstv, nos. 13 and 14, Moscow, 1960). This bronze, or another piece of sculpture was probably Tintoretto’s model. Some of the other drawings made from it are discussed and illustrated by Dr Liebman, as well as in Hadeln, Tintoretto, p. 27 and I. Fenyö, North Italian drawings from the collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1965, pp.80-2.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.244

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