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Seated man seen from behind

Maker

Circle of
(artist)
1560-1635

Formerly attributed to
Italy (Venice) 17th century (artist)
1600-1699

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1510-1592

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1610 - 1629

Medium

charcoal on blue-green laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 28.7 cm
Width: 19.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.368

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

probably Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364 (lower left, though abraded and unclear); unidentified collector, L.2084 (lower left); Vicomte Bernard d’Hendecourt, Paris (1874-1928); his sale, Sotheby's (Paris), 9 May 1929 lot 294 (repr.); Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974), L.2811b (mount, lower right); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 21 May 1963, lot 14 (repr.); purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£1,470, as by Jacopo Bassano); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Old master drawings from the collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, Arts Council Gallery, London; City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, 05/01/1962-07/04/1962

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

Exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings, Matthiessen Gallery, London, 1939 ...More

Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures, drawings, furniture and other objects of art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1936-37 (winter) ...Less

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 368
pl. LII
as by Venetian, 16th c., dated c. 1550

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1847, p. 302
as closer to Tintoretto or his followers

Fiocco, Giuseppe, Paolo Veronese, Rome 1934
p. 129
tentatively suggested Bassano ...More

Fiocco, Giuseppe, Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588, Bologna 1928
pp. 138 and 208

Hadeln, Baron von, Venezianische Zeichnungen der Spätrenaissance, Berlin 1926
pl. 54
as by Veronese ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as laid down; none evident in raking light.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: probably Sir Joshua Reynolds, though badly abraded and illegible (L.2364); lower left, stamped in black: unidentified collector (L.2084). Mount (Recto): lower right, stamped in black: Carl Robert Rudolf (L.2811b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, same hand as on D.1978.PG.101: “G Tintoretto”. Mount (verso): upper right corner, graphite, circled but mostly trimmed away: perhaps "£40" or "LTO"; upper centre, graphite, modern hand: “P. Veronese / Illustrated von Hadeln / Venezianischen Zeichnungen der Spätrenaissance LG 26. / Plate 54. / Collections. / Sir Joshua Reynolds / P. Huart. / Vicomte Bernard d’Hendecourt”; lower centre, graphite, circled and crossed through: “69”.

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