Study of a Reclining Male Nude

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti) (in circa 1575-1590)

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Title	Study of a Reclining Male Nude
Material and technique	Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 207 mm Width 309 mm
Artists	Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti)
Accession number	I 403 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1575-1590
Watermark	indistinct and unidentifiable (15 x 19 mm, in the center, on P4 of 8P, vH, folio format). [see image]
Inscriptions	'32' (bottom left, in red ink), '36' (verso, centre, in black chalk, underlined), '58' (verso, bottom right, pencil, within a cadre)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance	Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (Jacopo Tintoretto); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions	Amsterdam 1934, no. 677 (J. Tintoretto)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Amsterdam 1934, no. 677 (J. Tintoretto); Tietze/Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 1514 (D. Tintoretto)
Material	Blue paper > Coloured paper > Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Place of manufacture	Venice > Veneto region > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

Exhibited in 1934 as a work by Jacopo Tintoretto, this badly stained drawing was subsequently attributed to his son Domenico (1560-1635) by Tietze/Tietze-Conrat (1944), as a study for the figure of Christ in a painting depicting the nailing to the cross. John Marciari recently noted the solidity and structure of this rather unusual side view of a foreshortened reclining male model, which he considers stylistically close to a similar study in a private collection in New York, used for the painting Dead Christ with Angels, now in Basel, which is either by Domenico or an unknown follower of Jacopo.^[1]He attributes both drawings, which differ stylistically from similar studies by Domenico, to Jacopo himself. The same reasoning holds for another study of a foreshortened reclining man, also in Rotterdam (I 404), which is even closer to the New York drawing and the Basel painting.

Judging from common stains and the similar numbering in red ink, the two sheets and other figure studies, also from the Koenigs Collection (I 400, 401, 402, 405), were once kept together in a drawing-book or a portfolio that was damaged by water.^[2]

Footnotes

^[1]Observed during a visit to the museum in September 2017. The related drawing is in New York, Leon Black Collection, the painting in Basel, Kunstmuseum, inv. 511; Marciari 2018, pp. 150-51, figs. 118, 119 respectively. A similar but much earlier study of a reclining male nude in side view is in Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 5382; Echols/Ilchmann 2009, p. 179, fig. 159 (c.1553-55, for the dragon’s victim in St George and the Dragon).

^[2]The other drawing, inv. I 404, was made in one session with a very similar drawing (without a number in red ink), now in Chicago, Art Institute, inv. 1966.23; Folds McCullagh/Giles 1997, no. 311, ill., which also had a matching stain in the lower part, visible on an old black-and-white photograph, which was afterwards removed. This red numbering (‘34’) is also found on a third sheet in Rotterdam, a drawing by Domenico Tintoretto (inv. I 405).

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