Standing Man Wearing a Cloak and Hat

c. 1602

Matteo Rosselli

Associated Names
Matteo Rosselli

Artist, Florentine, 1578 - 1650

The image shows a side view sketch of a standing person. The person is depicted with one leg slightly bent and the other extended forward. They have a beard and are wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a long draped garment with voluminous sleeves, and the clothing appears textured. The person is not holding any objects and the background is a plain light surface. The sketch is done in red chalk on paper.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus, Paris (Lugt 1441); Giuseppe Vallardi, Milan (Lugt 1223); sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 1978, lot 76; Spencer Drummond Limited, Hamilton, Bermuda; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, July 1979; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, 16, 24, no. 17, repr. p. 25.

Bibliography

1984

  • Chappell, Miles L. Cristofano Allori, 1577-1621. Exh. cat. Palazzo Pitti. Florence, 1984, 41 (as attrib. to Cristofano Allori).

1993

  • National Gallery of Art. Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. Washington, 1993, checklist p. 95 (reproduced).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: B558

Wikidata ID

Q64608371

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