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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.288
People
Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1519 - 1594 Venice, Italy)
Title
Figure Study of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298612

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on gray-blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
31.3 × 22.3 cm (12 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Crown of five points, each surmounted by trefoils above undecipherable letters, in a circle, which is surmounted by a cross (not in Briquet but similar to 4871); W. 12
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: G. Tintoretto [in eighteenth-century hand]

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
1932.288
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 184, pp. 98-99; vol. 2, repr. fig. 96
  • Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 288, n.p., repr. color
  • Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), repr. pl. 55 in color
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 55
  • Philip Rawson, The Art of Drawing: An Instructional Guide, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984), p. 96, repr. fig. 115
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")

Exhibition History

  • Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 02/14/1954 - 03/28/1954
  • Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/06/1961 - 05/07/1961
  • European Drawings, 1450-1900, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 02/25/1964 - 03/28/1964
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967

Verification Level

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