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Study of a seated male figure

Maker

(artist)
1519-1594

Title

Study of a seated male figure

Date of Production

1535 - 1594

Medium

black chalk on coarse grey laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partially trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 31 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.SC.248

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; F. Hill, Southwell, Nottingham; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 June 1928, lot 4; purchased there by L. Harris (£200); Savile Gallery (London), January 1929; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 11 January (£136.10); Courtauld Gift 1932

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings, Savile Gallery, London, 1929 (January)

Literature

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 248

Old Master Drawings, Savile Gallery, London, January 1929
cat. no. 42
no. 42
ill. repr.

Inscriptions

Watermark: lower centre: circle containing an anchor, topped by a five-pointed star (similar to Briquet 472-494, all Italian or Austrian, but no exact match there or in Piccard as the star is quite far above the circle rather than sitting on it).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “G. Tintoretto” (same hand as on D.1952.RW.673 and 674).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364).

Label: Wooden backing (removed and now missing, recorded in file): label of Savile Gallery, 7 Stratford Place, London, with title “The Back of a Man” and Jacopo Rubusti (Il Tintoretto), and a printed label “no. 1052”.

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