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Nude figure of a young man lying on his back, with his left arm and leg raised - probably a study for 'Apollo flaying Marsyas'
Maker
(artist)
1591-1666
1591-1666
Title
Nude figure of a young man lying on his back, with his left arm and leg raised - probably a study for 'Apollo flaying Marsyas'
Date of Production
1618
Medium
pen and brown ink, brown wash on blue laid paper, with black chalk added later? at left centre
Dimensions
Height: 22.8 cm
Width: 23.9 cm
Width: 23.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1375
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Much of Guercino’s early experience came from life drawing. This dramatically foreshortened figure is clearly drawn from a posed model, the emphasis being on the posture and shading of the body rather than its accurate rendering. This drawing is a study for a painting (now in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence) commissioned by Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, depicting Marsyas, a mythical Greek flute player, about to be skinned alive by the god Apollo. The same model appears to have posed for both figures seen in the painting.
Provenance
by descent to the artist's nephews, Benedetto Gennari (1633-1715) and Cesare Gennari (1637-1688), 1666; by descent to Cesare’s sons, Gianfrancesco Gennari (1671-1727) and Filippo Antonio Gennari (1677-1751), 1719; by descent to Gianfrancesco's son, Carlo Gennari (1716-1790); presumably Francesco Forni, Bologna (18th century) or Abbé Bonducci, Florence (18th century); presumably acquired from either of those by John Bouverie, England (ca. 1722/1723-1750), 1741 or 1745; by descent to his sister, Anne Hervey (d. 1757); by descent to her son, Christopher Hervey (d. 1786); by descent to his aunt, Elizabeth Bouverie (d. 1798); by descent to Sir Charles Middleton, later 1st Baron Barham (1726-1813); by descent to his son-in-law, Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (1759-1838); by descent to his son, Charles Noel, later 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781-1866); by descent to Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1850-1926); his sale, Christie's (London), 27 July 1922, part of lot 81 (a box containing 68 drawings by Guercino and others); purchased there by F.R. Meatyard (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£90 for the lot); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Guercino - Mind to Paper, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/02/2007-13/05/2007
Guercino - Mind to Paper, J Paul Getty Museum & Los Angeles & California & USA, 24/10/2006-21/01/2007
Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, British Museum, London, 1991 ...More
Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Il Guercino - Catalogo critico dei disegni, Bologna, 01/09/1968-18/11/1968
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
catalogue untraced, Eton College, 1950
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
Eton, 1939 ...Less
Guercino - Mind to Paper, J Paul Getty Museum & Los Angeles & California & USA, 24/10/2006-21/01/2007
Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, British Museum, London, 1991 ...More
Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/02/1977-01/03/1977
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Il Guercino - Catalogo critico dei disegni, Bologna, 01/09/1968-18/11/1968
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
catalogue untraced, Eton College, 1950
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
Eton, 1939 ...Less
Literature
Guercino: Mind to paper, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Courtauld Gallery, London, 2006-2007 Los Angeles, 2006
no. 1
ill. on p. 20
Genova e Guercino: Dipinti e disegni delle civiche collezioni, Galleria di Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, 1992
pp. 32, 34
ill.
Drawings by Guercino from British collections, British Museum, London, 1991, 1991
no. 6 and pp. 31 note 92, 32 note 108, 38-39, 231
ill. on p. 39 ...More
Guercino: Master painter of the Baroque, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992
pp. 170-71 under no. 15
Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991
p. 26 under no. 4
Turner, Nicholas, 'Guercino als zeichner' in 'Giovanni Francesco Barbierie: Il Guercino, 1591-1666', 1991 - 345-54
p. 348 note 7
Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, British Museum, London, 1991
cat. no. 6
Le Guerchin en France, Louvre, Paris, 1990
p. 93
Mahon, Denis and Nicholas Turner, The drawings of Guercino in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989
p. 3
Salerno, Luigi, I dipinti del Guercino, Rome, Ugo Bozzi Editore, 1988
p. 126
Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque masters, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1977, 1977
p. 17
Roli, Renato, G.F. Barbieri: Guercino, Milan, Aldo Martello Editore, 1972
p. 20
Italian drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1971
p. 4
Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666): Catalogo critico dei disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1968, 1969
cat. no. 32
pp. 61-62
pl. 32
author: Denis Mahon
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 82
ill. on p. 22
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 54
pl. V
'The Drawing Schools: Pictures from Sir Robert Witt's Collection' in 'Eton College Chronicle', 4 June 1950 - unpaginated
unpag.
Drawings of the old masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1943
p. 24 ...Less
no. 1
ill. on p. 20
Genova e Guercino: Dipinti e disegni delle civiche collezioni, Galleria di Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, 1992
pp. 32, 34
ill.
Drawings by Guercino from British collections, British Museum, London, 1991, 1991
no. 6 and pp. 31 note 92, 32 note 108, 38-39, 231
ill. on p. 39 ...More
Guercino: Master painter of the Baroque, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992
pp. 170-71 under no. 15
Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991
p. 26 under no. 4
Turner, Nicholas, 'Guercino als zeichner' in 'Giovanni Francesco Barbierie: Il Guercino, 1591-1666', 1991 - 345-54
p. 348 note 7
Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, British Museum, London, 1991
cat. no. 6
Le Guerchin en France, Louvre, Paris, 1990
p. 93
Mahon, Denis and Nicholas Turner, The drawings of Guercino in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989
p. 3
Salerno, Luigi, I dipinti del Guercino, Rome, Ugo Bozzi Editore, 1988
p. 126
Drawings by Guercino and other Baroque masters, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1977, 1977
p. 17
Roli, Renato, G.F. Barbieri: Guercino, Milan, Aldo Martello Editore, 1972
p. 20
Italian drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1971
p. 4
Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666): Catalogo critico dei disegni, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1968, 1969
cat. no. 32
pp. 61-62
pl. 32
author: Denis Mahon
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 82
ill. on p. 22
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 54
pl. V
'The Drawing Schools: Pictures from Sir Robert Witt's Collection' in 'Eton College Chronicle', 4 June 1950 - unpaginated
unpag.
Drawings of the old masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1943
p. 24 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: circle containing crown above a fan (same symbol seen in the coat of arms watermark on D.1952.RW.1366).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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