Two Male Nudes

c. 1520

Baccio Bandinelli

Associated Names
Baccio Bandinelli

Artist, Florentine, 1488/1493 - 1560

The image shows two male figures in full-body outline. The figure on the left is slightly turned towards the viewer with one arm bent and the other extended towards the figure on the right. The figure on the right faces forward with one arm pointing outward. Both figures have muscular builds and detailed anatomical features. The figure on the right has defined facial features, including a mustache and upward-styled hair. The figure on the left has less detailed facial features and closely cropped or pulled back hair. Both figures seem to be nude, holding circular shields. The background is plain and tan, resembling aged paper, with no additional context, focusing solely on the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.7 x 27 cm (13 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1971.48.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

C. S. Roos, Mannheim (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 June 1937, no. 305). (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1971); NGA purchase, 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1999

  • Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello 1515-1527, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, Mantua; Akademiehof, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 1999, cat. no. 202.

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974:199.

1982

  • Ward, Roger Barry. "Baccio Bandinelli as a Draughtsman," Ph.D. dissertation for the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1982, 414, no. 415, fig. 61.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: Baccio Bandinelli [r]

Wikidata ID

Q64537106

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