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Nude figure (recto)
Nude figure (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1519-1594

Title

Nude figure (recto)
Nude figure (verso)

Date of Production

(?) 1570 - 1579

Medium

charcoal with stumping, squared in charcoal, with brown ink framing lines (recto), charcoal (verso), on light blue laid paper, with a separate strip added at the verso bottom edge to account for areas of loss (examined under the microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 33.3 cm
Width: 20.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.673

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

This unidentified composition, squared for transfer onto another surface, is a fine example of a working drawing. Tintoretto's figure compositions, which are often based on small wax models, are predominantly studies in motion. His highly individual style is apparent in the twisting elongated body, its contours and musculature defined by rippling lines and curved black chalk marks. The dramatic contrast between light and dark shows the influence of Michelangelo's work.

Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792); G.M. Fitzgerald; Mrs Jean Miller Morrison, Edinburgh; her sale, Sotheby’s (London), 23 May 1922, lot 29 (with D.1952.RW.674 and 675; the latter did not come to The Courtauld); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 1 June 1922 (£28); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Witt Collection - Four centuries of drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/04/2004-20/06/2004

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Exposition des collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, Université de Paris, 1935

Winter exhibition: Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy, London, 01/01/1930-08/03/1930

Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1927-28 ...Less

Literature

Rossi, Paola, I disegni di Jacopo Tintoretto, corpus graphichum, Florence 1975
p. 44
Illus. no. 98

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 93

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 49 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 37

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953
cat. no. 119

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. 69
Illus. pl. III

Newton, Eric, 'Drawings by Old Masters' in 'Britain Today', July 1953

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1713, p. 289

Exposition des collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, Université de Paris, 1935
cat. no. 709
no. 709

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of Italian drawings exhibited at the Italian Exhibition of 1930, 1931
no. 283
Illus. pl. 237a

Italian art exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Academy, London, 1930 Oxford 1931
cat. no. 665 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “G. Tintoretto” (same hand as on D.1952.RW.674 and D.1932.SC.248). Verso: lower centre, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A 3455”.

Collector's mark: Verso: upper left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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