Male Nude Reclining on a Bed
c. 1745
Artist, Italian, 1708 - 1787
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk on laid paper washed ocher
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.5 x 15 cm (8 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.49
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Catalogue Raisonné
Clark 1985, no. D220
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Herbert List, Munich [1903-1975] (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
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: 238. no. 110.
1979
Zeichnungen Italiensicher Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfed, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, Kunstmuseum Luzern. Lucerne, 1979: 96, no. 164 (not reproduced).
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 47.
Bibliography
1985
Clark, Anthony M. Pompeo Batoni. A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text. Edited and prepared for publication by Edgar Peters Bowron. New York, 1985: 237 (under no. 102), 387, no. D 220.
Inscriptions
Signed at bottom right in brown ink: Pompeo Batoni
Wikidata ID
Q64619716