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Drawing

ca.1540-1594 (made)
Artist/Maker
Tintoretto, Jacopo (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (drawn)

Study of figures; Hercules overcoming two men, one is lying on the ground, apparently dead. The composition repeated on the reverse; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white
Black Chalk
Grey Paper
Drawing
Heightening
Brief description
Tintoretto, Jacopo; Hercules overcoming two men, one is lying on the ground, apparently dead. The composition repeated on the reverse; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white; Venetian School; ca.1540-1594.
Physical description
Study of figures; Hercules overcoming two men, one is lying on the ground, apparently dead. The composition repeated on the reverse; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14in
  • Width: 10in
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
Venetian School
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Men
Serpents (Animals)
Hercules
Samson
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.
  • Lambert, Susan. Drawing: Technique & Purpose. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981. p.19.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume I. 14th-16th century, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1979, p. 161. The text is as follows: school of TINTORETTO, JACOPO 339 Recto and verso Studies (one on each side of the sheet) from Michelangelo’s lost group pf Samson slaying teo Philistines Inscribed in ink on the mount ‘Tintoretto’ Black chalk heightened with white on faded blue paper Size of sheet 14 ¼ x 11 1/8 (361 x 283) Dyce 237 PROVENANCE Sir J. Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 237 (as by Tintoretto); Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, no. 1841 (school of Tintoretto) For two other studies of the same subject see nos. 340 recto and verso. At least fifteen other similar studies by Tintoretto and his achool are in other collections. Tintoretto is known to have drawn regularly from sculpture, and his studio was stocked with models and casts. This study may have been made from a cast of Michelangelo’s group or from one of the small bronze or terracotta versions illustrated, for example, in John Pope-Hennessy, Samson and a Philistine by Giovanni Bologna (Victoria and Albert Museum Monograph), 1954, p. 9, fig. 8)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.237

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Record createdSeptember 11, 2009
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