Harvard Art Museums > 1932.144: Reclining Nude Youth Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Reclining Nude Youth (Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci da Pontormo)) , 1932.144,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 27, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299860. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download A nude male body, depicted from the knees upwards, is drawn in red chalk. Identification and Creation Object Number 1932.144 People Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci da Pontormo), Italian (Pontormo, Italy 1494 - 1557 Florence, Italy) Title Reclining Nude Youth Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1537-1542 Places Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence Culture Italian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299860 Physical Descriptions Medium Red chalk on cream antique laid paper Dimensions 29.5 x 19.8 cm (11 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: Inscribed, verso, graphite, upper left: c/8 watermark: Paschal Lamb (close to Briquet 47, 49 and 50) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser Accession Year 1932 Object Number 1932.144 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History F. M. Clapp, Les Dessins de Pontormo (Paris, France, 1914), p. 85 Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1955B, p. 273 Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 144, p. 83; vol. 2, repr. fig. 82 Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 205, n.p., repr. color Janet Cox-Rearick, The Drawings of Pontormo, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1964), vol. I, p. 306, no. 340; vol. II, fig. 318 Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, RI, 1973), cat. no. 57, repr. Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 16, pp. 44-45, repr. Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 26, n.p., and pp. 32 and 36, repr. color Laura Giles, "'Christ before Pilate': A Major Composition Study by Pontormo", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1991), vol. XVII, no. 1, p. 89, note 3 Harriet K. Stratis, "The Technical Aspects of Pontormo's 'Christ before Pilate' ", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1991), vol. 17, no. 1, p. 92, note 5 Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997 Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere") Exhibition History Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962 - 05/25/1962 Mannerism, Montgomery Gallery, Claremont, 12/05/1963 - 12/31/1963 Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/22/1973 - 03/25/1973 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2017 - 04/20/2017 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu