A Kneeling Man Holding a Staff [recto]

mid 1550s

Jacopo Tintoretto

Artist, Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal heightened with white on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.6 × 34.8 cm (9 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.10.6.a

Associated Artworks

A Female Nude [verso]

Domenico Tintoretto, Jacopo Tintoretto

1560

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale Christie's New York, 10 January 1990, lot 17); purchased (via Hazlitt, Gooden and Kox) by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 21.

2018

  • Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 16.

Bibliography

1990

  • Christie's, OLD MASTER DRWGS, NY: 1/10/90, 17 (illus.).

Inscriptions

verso, in contemporary charcoal below the nude: "X"

Wikidata ID

Q64580085

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