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Drawing

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

Study of a nude man, seated, and embracing one of his knees; Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying.
Brief description
Tintoretto, Jacopo; Study of a nude man, seated, and embracing one of his knees; Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying; Venetian School; ca.1540-1594.
Physical description
Study of a nude man, seated, and embracing one of his knees; Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.5in
  • Width: 8.8in
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.
  • P. Rossi, I disegni di Jacopo Tintoretto, Florence, 1975, p. 45.
  • T. Pignatti, Le scuole di Venezia, Milan, 1981, p. 176.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume I. 14th-16th century, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1979, p. 159. The text is as follows: TINTORETTO, JACOPO Jacopo Robusti (1518-94) 335 Seated male nude, whith his hands clasped over his left knee Inscribed in ink ‘G. Tintoretto’ (in the same hand as nos. 328) Black chalk on blue paper; squared in charcoal 8 5/8 x 4 7/8 (219 x 123) Dyce 246 PROVENANCE Sir J. Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 246 (as by Tintoretto); von Hadeln, ‘Some Draings by Tintoretto’ in The Burlington Magazine, 44, 1924, p. 280 and pl. 1. c; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, no. 1704 and pl. 119 (2). It is a study for the woman in the right foreground of the Last Supper in the Scuola di San Rocco, Venice (Bercken, pl. 268; Tietze, fig. 208; painted between 1576 and 1581). Tintoretto sometimes employed made models for the female figures in his pictures. No. 337 appears to be another insance.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.246

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