National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: A Seated Male Nude
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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

lower right, red chalk, signed (?), Tiepolo Fe.t; verso, lower left, brown ink, G.B.T. / f/l [1 florin] C.M. [Conventions-Münze], and No 2793

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Provenance

Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresia Caroline and her husband Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; (their sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882); Dr. Oscar Eisenmann, Cassel. Wilhelm Lübke, Stuttgart. (Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt). Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano; (his sale, Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 24-25 April 1931, no. 103). Dr. Erich Alport, Oxford; (sold by his estate, Christie's London, 4 July 1972, no. 186). Herbert List, Munich; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Exhibition History

1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 214-217, no. 99 (entry by Maria Santifaller).
1979
Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 56, no. 97.
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 40.
1996
Der Himmel auf Erden: Tiepolo in Würzburg. Residenz, Würzburg. Munich, 1996: 147, no. 80 (both recto and verso reproduced; entry by Florian Fiedler).
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 40 (reprod. on the frontispiece).
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 49.

Bibliography

1980
Knox, George. Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings. 2 vols. Oxford, 1980, 1: 259 (under no. M 375), 278, no. M 572.
1996
Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996, 280-281, under no. 103, fig. 1.
2007
Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2007: 139, note 4, under no. 53 (entry by Andrew Robison).

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