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Title Standing Woman
Material and technique Pen and brown ink on blue paper
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 254 mm
Width 103 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Anoniem
Accession number I 296 (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1600
Watermark Crossbow with two balls below (poorly visible), c. 48 x 30 mm, left of centre, on P2 op 4?P, vH
Inscriptions '67/ Tiziano' (verso, on removed backing sheet, above centre, pencil), '1' circled (idem, centre, pencil), '948' (idem, below centre, pencil), 'Original study by Titian from the G.L. Collection' (idem, below centre, pencil)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance Art dealer Luigi Grassi (1858-1937, L.1171b), Florence; his sale, London (Sotheby's) 12.05.1924, lot 140 (Titian,(?) BP 24); - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1928 (Venetian School, 16th century); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material
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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: Rosie Razzall

The fluid, looping penwork of this drawing of a female figure on blue paper is somewhat suggestive of a Northern artist who travelled to Italy, or a Southern Netherlandish artist with Italian influences.[1] However, the pose of the woman, stepping downwards and gesturing to the right with her arm in steep foreshortening, is also characteristic of a figure from the work of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) or Paolo Veronese (1528-1588).[2] The use of blue paper might also indicate that the drawing is of Venetian origin, as was believed to be the case when it was acquired by Franz Koenigs. Nevertheless, black chalk was more typical than pen and ink among the artists from Venetian workshops when they were drawing on blue paper. The attribution to Titian (1488/1490-1576) when it was in the collection of art dealer Luigi Grassi (1858-1937) cannot be upheld.

The identification of a corresponding figure in a painting may help to pin down the artist or geographical origins of the sheet, which remains for now as Venetian school.

Footnotes

[1] Comments from Sarah Vowles, Boijmans-Getty expert meeting, 2020.

[2] Comments from Hugo Chapman, Aidan Weston-Lewis, Gert Jan van der Sman, Boijmans-Getty expert meeting, 2020.

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