1932.144: Reclining Nude Youth

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

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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of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim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

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