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Seated Nude Boy

Seated Nude Boy

Circle of: Andrea del Verrocchio (in circa 1458-1488)

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Title Seated Nude Boy
Material and technique Pen and brown ink
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 116 mm
Width 89 mm
Artists Circle of: Andrea del Verrocchio
Maker: Anoniem
Accession number I 456 (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1458-1488
Watermark none (vH, 3P)
Inscriptions 'Verrocchio Kreis' (removed backing sheet, lower centre, pencil, by H. Lütjens), 'K 1153' (removed backing sheet, above, red chalk), '11' (removed backing sheet, above centre, pencil)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark G. Vallardi (L.1223, no. K 1153), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a on removed backing sheet)
Provenance Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863, L.1223/1223a)**, art dealer, Milan, his no. K 1153; - ; Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (circle of Andrea del Verrocchio); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions none
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature none
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Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Place of manufacture Florence > Tuscany > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Michael Kwakkelstein

The present drawing depicts a nude infant seated on what could be interpreted as a parapet. He appears to be looking down while making a gesture with his left hand, the index finger of which is slightly raised. A later hand has retouched the drawing with a darker ink on several points, including the infant’s left eye, making it difficult to establish the exact direction of his gaze.

Comparably quick and summarily rendered depictions in pen and ink of infants with little or no internal modelling are found among the drawings attributed to the Florentine sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio.[1] No identically posed infant recurs in his work, but the motif invites comparison to that of an infant illustrated in a group of metalpoint drawings on coloured paper that have been attributed to artists from Verrocchio’s circle (Piero di Cosimo (1462-1521), Lorenzo di Credi (1456/1459-1537) and Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507).[2] These drawings record a sculpted model of a seated infant that may have originated from Verrocchio’s workshop. The careful execution of these drawings, including the application of white pigment, reflects the artist’s concern with the interplay between light and shade to suggest rilievo or the three-dimensionality of the infant’s form. These concerns were evidently not shared by the artist of the Rotterdam drawing, who was interested above all in recording the infant’s pose by drawing its outlines.

Footnotes

[1] See Kwakkelstein 2000.

[2] Dalli Regoli 1978. The drawings by artists from the workshop of the sculptor Francesco di Simone Ferrucci (1437-1493), whose work reflects the influence of that of Verrocchio, include many depictions of seated nude infants, but they bear no relationship to the one illustrated in the Rotterdam drawing. See Pisani 2007, figs. 158-209.

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