Studies of a Sculpture of a Male Nude, Vertebrae, and Gesturing Figures

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Artist, Bolognese, 1529 - 1592

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and iron gall ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.9 x 20 cm (11 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.124.1.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Höper 1987, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. L. Pollak, Rome (1868 - 1943) (Lugt no. 7886); Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976] (not in Lugt); Dr. and Mrs. George Baer, Atlanta; NGA purchase in 2000.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1958, no. 3.

1982

  • Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800, National Gallery of Canada, 1982, no. 11.

1985

  • Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1985, no. 9.

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1987

  • Höper, Corinna. Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529 - 1592). Worms, 1987.

Inscriptions

by the artist, upper right in ink: amodo / (not deciphered) apud vos(?) / by the artist, lower right in ink: questo / parte / (not deciphered) / posto / adosso / (not deciphered); by the artist, lower center in brown ink: (not deciphered)

Wikidata ID

Q64537155

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