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Nude male figure reclining with both arms behind his back (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1519-1594

Title

Nude male figure reclining with both arms behind his back (recto)

Date of Production

(?) 1570 - 1579

Medium

black chalk squared in black chalk with brown ink framing lines (recto), black chalk (verso), on blue laid paper, on a historic border support (paper appears as though laid down but notes in the file indicate not)

Dimensions

Width: 30.1 cm
Height: 20.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.674

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





Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; G.M. Fitzgerald; Mrs Jean Miller Morrison, Edinburgh; her sale, Sotheby’s (London), 23 May 1922, lot 29 (along with D.1952.RW.673 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 (£20.1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

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 ...More

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

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938 ...Less

Literature

Koshikawa, Michiaki, Review of 'Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, exh. cat. by John Marciari' in 'Master Drawings', Summer 2020 - pp. 247-54; vol. 58, no. 2
p. 250
Fig. 5 (recto), fig. 6 (verso) on p. 251
attributed to Marco Robusti

Rossi, Paola, 'Jacopo Tintoretto: Disegni respinti, precisazioni attributive,' in 'Arte Veneta', 2007 - pp. 73-117; 64
no. 40
Illus. recto and verso repr.
as attributed to the Tintoretto school

Rossi, Paola, I disegni di Jacopo Tintoretto, corpus graphichum, Florence 1975
p. 63
Illus. addenda IX (verso) ...More

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 14
Illus. p. 13

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 94

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. 68

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1714, p. 289 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto: right centre? unable to see clearly.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “G. Tintoretto” (same hand as on D.1952.RW.673 and D.1932.SC.248). Verso: lower right edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A 3457”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364). Verso: stamped twice, at lower left and right corners, in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b). Support (historic), Recto: stamped twice at upper and lower left in black ink (must have been mounted both portrait and landscape-wise at different times): Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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