A Seated Male Nude
1752/1753
Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 28.9 × 37 cm (11 3/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.170.a
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Catalogue Raisonné
Knox 1980, M 572
Associated Artworks
Male Nude Leaning on His Elbow (verso)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1752
Artwork history & notes
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 [1903-1975], Munich (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, 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
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 40 (reprod. on the frontispiece).
Der Himmel auf Erden: Tiepolo in Würzburg. Residenz, Würzburg. Munich, 1996: 147, no. 80 (both recto and verso reproduced; entry by Florian Fiedler).
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 49.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 72.
Bibliography
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 214-217.
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.
1995
Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 40 and frontispiece.
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.
Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 40 and frontispiece.
Der Himmel auf Erden. Tiepolo in Würzburg. Residenz, Würzburg. 2 vols. Munich, 1996: 146-147.
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).
2011
Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 112-115.
Inscriptions
lower right, red chalk, signed (?), Tiepolo Fct; verso, lower left, brown ink, "G.B.T." and (Bossi Beyerlen numbers) "f.1 [1 florin] C.M. [Conventions-Münze]" and "No 2793"
Wikidata ID
Q64572384