FJK 072

Tintoretto Jacopo (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice)

Seated Male Nude Study (recto-verso)

ca. 1551-1552
8 37/64 × 8 1/2 in. (218 × 216 mm)

Medium
Charcoal on brownish paper

Late inscription in pen, most likely 17th century, bottom right: G. Tintoretto
Collector’s mark “Sir Joshua Reynolds” bottom left

Origin

Sir Joshua Reynolds Collection, London (1723-1792) (Lugt 2364)
W. Schab Collection
M. Gordon Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, January 12, 1994, no. 12
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5275
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

ROSSI P., MORETTI L., NIERO A., La Chiesa del Tintoretto. Alla Madonna dell’Orto, Venice, 1994, p. 98 (recto only).

REARICK W.R., “From Drawing to Painting. The Role of ‘Disegno’ in the Tintoretto Shop,” in Jacopo Tintoretto nel quarto centenario della morte, Venice, 1996, p. 174.

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 418, ill.

Exhibitions

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Old Master Drawings from American Collections, 1976, no. 49, ill.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p.  4, no. 35, color ill. p. 85.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 100, no. 34, color ill. p. 101.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 94, no. 35, color ill. p. 94-95.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 86, no. 35, color ill. p. 86-87.