Standing Soldier, Facing Right
1590s?
Artist, Florentine, 1548 - 1612

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk with touches of red chalk on laid paper, laid down on old mount
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Credit Line
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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