Standing Soldier, Facing Right

1590s?

Bernardino Poccetti

Artist, Florentine, 1548 - 1612

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with touches of red chalk on laid paper, laid down on old mount

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ann Sutherland Harris

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.1 × 16.8 cm (11 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
    mount: 47.8 × 28.7 cm (18 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.178.6


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anonymous private collection, by 1953; (Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1956, as Jacopo Bassano). (sale, Christie's East, New York, 23 May 2000, no. 22, as Venetian School). Professor Ann Sutherland Harris, Pittsburgh; (sale, Christie's, New York, 30 January 2018, no. 32, unsold); gift to to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Five Centuries of Drawing. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1953, no. 53 (as Bassano)

1955

  • Four Centuries of European Drawing. American Federation of the Arts, 1955 - 1956, no. 3 (as Jacopo Bassano).

2004

  • Pittsburgh Collects: European Drawings, 1500 - 1800. Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, 2004 - 2005, no. 32

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in pen and brown ink: 518. / in graphite: 13906; lower center verso in brown ink: [not deciphered--inscription crossed out]; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 42

Watermarks

encircled eagle with a crown


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