Standing Male Nude Seen from Behind | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.268
People: Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian (1728 - 1781)
Title: Standing Male Nude Seen from Behind
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/329938

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and white chalk on prepared paper

Dimensions

43.5 x 28.8 cm (17 1/8 x 11 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

collector's mark: on mount, black ink, lower right: H (at an angle in a square)/ Jeffery E. Horvitz, Boston (not in Lugt)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gabriel Terrades, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, acquired in 2004; sold to Harvard Art Museum, 2008

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Fund
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.268
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary: Ubaldo Gandolfi was a noted member of Bologna's most distinguished dynasty of eighteenth-century artists. This characteristic academic nude can be compared with a number of other examples, in particular one in the Cini Foundation in Venice, where the same model appears.

Publication History

The Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 23, 2008), lot 97, repr. [bought in]

Verification Level

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