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Drawing

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

Sketch of a nude male figure, seated. The same subject on the reverse, possibly traced through; Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying.
Black Chalk
Grey Paper
Charcoal
Drawing
Sketching
Tracing
Brief description
Tintoretto, Jacopo; Sketch of a nude male figure, seated. The same subject on the reverse, possibly traced through; Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying; Italian; ca.1540-1594.
Physical description
Sketch of a nude male figure, seated. The same subject on the reverse, possibly traced through; Black chalk on grey paper, squared for copying.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.1in
  • Width: 6.9in
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
Nudes
Man
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. 161. The text is as follows: TINTORETTO, JACOPO Jacopo Robusti (1518-94) 338 Recto Seated male nude Inscribed in ink ‘G. Tintoretto’ (in the same hand as in no. 328) Charcoal on faded blue paper; squared in charcoal 8 5/8 x 7 1/8 (219 x 180) Dyce 245 Verso Similar figure, reversed, possibly traced through, the upper part very rough and confused through many pentimenti Charcoal PROVENANCE Sir J. Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Collection no. 245 (as by Tintoretto); Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, no. 1703 (as by Tintoretto) The post is similar to that of the disciple whose foot Christ is washing in the picture of that subject in the National Gallery, London, the extended and foreshortened right arm being a noticeable feature common to both figures. (See Bercken, pl. 102; approximate date 1564-66; Tieze, pl. 139.) But the disciple in the painting leans further forward, while his right leg is correspondingly more extended and not so foreshortened in the thigh.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.245

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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