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Jacopo Tintoretto

A Kneeling Man Holding a Staff [recto], mid 1550s

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Medium

charcoal heightened with white on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.6 × 34.8 cm (9 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1990.10.6.a

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Tintoretto (artist) Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, in contemporary charcoal below the nude: "X"

Provenance

(sale Christie's New York, 10 January 1990, lot 17); purchased (via Hazlitt, Gooden and Kox) by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

Exhibition History

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 21.

2018: Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 16.

Bibliography

1990: Christie's, OLD MASTER DRWGS, NY: 1/10/90, 17 (illus.).

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