A Striding Youth with His Arms Raised, Seen from Behind

c. 1579

Jacopo Tintoretto

Artist, Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal on oatmeal paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 36.3 × 22.2 cm (14 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1975.71.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1975, no. 188, repr. p. 36); NGA purchase (via Yvonne tan Bunzl) in 1975.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 44.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 28.

2018

  • Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 47.

Bibliography

1975

  • Sotheby's, London, 7/4/75: 188, ill. p.36.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 666, no. 1056, color repro.

1995

  • Martinez, Benjamin, and Block, Jacqueline. Visual Forces, An Introduction to Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988: 138-139, fig. C; 2nd ed. with revised text, 1995: 97, fig. D.

2001

  • Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 215, fig. 11.14.

Inscriptions

upper right stamped: 48; lower right effaced inscription

Watermarks

Armillary sphere closest to Briquet 13,991 (Vicenza, 1559)

Wikidata ID

Q64580083

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