Head of Laocoon, Study after a Copy after an Antique Sculpture

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti) (in circa 1538-1592)

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Lorenzo Boffadossi asked

Dear Sir,
I am writing in order to kindly ask you some information about a drawing by Tintoretto in the collection of Boijmans Museum (inv. I 398 PK). Is there any publication (after Tietze - Tietze Conrat 1944 [ed. 1979], p. 286, number 1673) or other inventory information that mentions this sheet?
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Lorenzo Boffadossi
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

Dear Lorenzo, Thank you for your question. I have passed it to our curator of drawings, Rosie Razall, and she writes the following: This drawing has been missing since WW2, is in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow where it is claimed by the State of the Netherlands. There is some information about it in:
A.J. Elen, Missing Old Master Drawings from the Franz Koenigs Collection claimed by the State of the Netherlands, The Hague 1989, no. 397, and in: Five Centuries of European Drawings. The Former Collection of Franz Koenigs, exh. cat. Moscow (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), Milan 1995, p. 127, ill., p. 51, pl. I hope this answer is helpful. Kind regards, Els

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This drawing is part of a group of 508 drawings from the Koenigs Collection, which was sold in the fall of 1940 by D.G. van Beuningen to Dr. Hans Posse, Hitler's Sonderbeauftragter Linz. This transaction was in violation of Dutch laws and international agreements. See the publication by Albert J. Elen, Missing Old Master Drawings from the Franz Koenigs Collection claimed by the State of The Netherlands, Den Haag 1989

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Title	Head of Laocoon, Study after a Copy after an Antique Sculpture
Material and technique	Black chalk, heightened with white (partly oxidized), on light blue paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object

Artists	Draughtsman: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti)
Accession number	I 398 (PK)
Credits	Missing since World War II, see cat. Missing Old Master Drawings from the Franz Koenigs Collection claimed by the State of the Netherlands, The Hague 1989
Department	Drawings & Prints (Pushkin claim)
Creation date	in circa 1538-1592
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object