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Study of a male figure bending forward

Maker

(artist)
1519-1594

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1575 - 1585

Medium

charcoal and traces of white chalk on blue laid paper (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 20.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.370

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

Label Text

As his early biographer Carlo Ridolfi noted, Tintoretto loved to ‘draw from the live model in all sorts of poses, endowing them with grace’, inspired by sculpture, particularly that of Michelangelo. This is one such study, executed in charcoal on coarsely-fibred paper. The model could not have held this contorted position for long, and supports himself with a stick. He was probably also kneeling on a stool, but Tintoretto chose not to represent this prosaic prop in his dynamic drawing.

Provenance

Julius Bär & Co., Zurich; purchased from there via Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris dealer) by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 21 January 1959 (£85); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012

Literature

Whistler, Catherine, Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting, New Haven and London 2017
p. 149
fig. 158 on p. 150
as by Domenico Tintoretto (?)

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 14
ill. on p. 91
as by Jacopo, dated c. 1575-85

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 370
pl. LIV
as by Jacopo, dated c. 1576-81

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: a circle bisected by one chain line; between the adjacent pair of chain lines a large but indistinct mark, possibly a tree or bird?

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, “an old hand” according to Seilern: “Tintoretto”. Verso: lower left corner, brown ink: "18 [paraphe]" (not found on Lugt).

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