Two Nude Youths [recto]

c. 1565/1567

Federico Barocci

Artist, Italian, probably 1535 - 1612

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white, contours (of standing figure) incised, on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40 x 27.4 cm (15 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.17.1.a

Associated Artworks

Half-Length of Mary Magdalene [verso]

Federico Barocci

1565


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Stefan von Licht, Vienna (Lugt Supp.789b)(sale, Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt-am-Main, 7 December 1927, no. 90); Prof. Otto Benesch, Vienna; Private Collection, Stockholm; Edmund Pillsbury; NGA purchase in 1983.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci, Selected Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, no. 18

1984

  • Correggio and His Legacy, Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma (catalogue in Italian), 1984, no. 96, repro.

1988

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

2012

  • Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2012-2013, cat. 2.3, repro.

2013

  • Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, National Gallery of Art, London, 2013, cat. 2.3, repro.

Bibliography

1955

  • Olsen, Harald. Federico Barocci, A Critical Study in Italian Cinquecento Painting. Stockholm, 1955: 117, under no. 14.

1962

  • Olsen, Harald. Federico Barocci. Copenhagen, 1962: 148-149, pl. 19b (recto), under no. 14.

1978

  • J.B. [Jacob Bean]. Review of The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci exhibition, in Master Drawings 16,no. 4, Winter, 1978: 452.

1991

  • McCullagh, Suzanne Folds. "Serendipity in a Solander Box: A Recently Discovered Pastel and Chalk Drawing by Federico Barocci," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, no. 1, 1991, 64-65, fig. 16 (recto).

2000

  • McCullagh, Suzanne Folds. "Early Portraits, Portrayals, and Pastels in the Art of Federico Barocci," in Festschrift für Konrad Oberhuber, Achim Gnann and Heinz Widauer, eds., Milan, 2000: 169, 171, fig. 7 (verso).

Watermarks

Crossed arrows (cf. Briquet 6280-81)

Wikidata ID

Q64561223


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