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Studies after Michelangelo's 'Samson and the Philistines'
Maker
1519-1594
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Width: 27.6 cm
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Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Renaissance Modern, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/04/2015-07/06/2015
Special Display - Looking at Michelangelo, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/02/2010-06/06/2010 ...More
A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002
Material Evidence, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/1998-24/01/1999
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/07/1981-26/01/1982 ...Less
Literature
p. 35
fig. 3.6
as workshop of Tintoretto
Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, Morgan Library, New York, 12 Oct. 2018-6 Jan. 2019 and National Gallery of Art, 3 Mar.-26 May 2019, 2018
p. 106
fig. 74 on p. 102
as Tintoretto (?)
Whistler, Catherine, Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting, New Haven and London 2017
p. 135
fig. 142 on p. 135
dated as possibly 1550s ...More
Sotheby's, London, Old Master drawings, 5 July 2006
under lot 13
Material Evidence, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1998-1999
cat. no. no cat. number
Hass, Angela, 'Michelangelo's Samson and the Philistine: conception, meaning and subsequent influence' in 'Apollo', Dec. 1993 - pp. 382-86; CXXXIX, 382
p. 383
fig. 3 on p. 384
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 69
pp. 146, 194
ill. on p. 147
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), Courtauld Gallery, London, 1981-1982
cat. no. 152
ill. on p. 110
Byam Shaw, James, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford 1976
p. 206 under no. 763
Rossi, Paola, I disegni di Jacopo Tintoretto, corpus graphichum, Florence 1975
pp. 14, 43
fig. 29
finds the attribution to Tintoretto acceptable by comparison with the other autograph drawings of the same subject
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 99
Italian 16th-century drawings from British private collections, Edinburgh Festival, 1969
under no. 83
Paintings and drawings from Christ Church, Oxford, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 27 April - 11 June 1960
under no. 74
Pallucchini, Rodolfo, 'Una collezione italiana a Londra' in 'Arte Veneta', 1959-60; XIII-XIV
p. 256
thought Seilern's dating was too late
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 99
pl. LVIII
dated c. 1550-55 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite: “No 48”. Verso (backing sheet): lower centre, graphite: "di G Tintoretto"; lower right, brown ink: "Tintoretto"; lower right, brown ink: "£6.16 [or £6.10 or £6.18]."; lower left, graphite, modern hand: "G. Giugno 1830"; lower right, graphite, modern hand: "size 2."; lower right corner, graphite: "1".
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