A Hand Holding Empty Gloves

1630s

Bernardo Strozzi

Associated Names
Bernardo Strozzi

Artist, Genoese-Venetian, 1581/1582 - 1644

The image shows a detailed drawing of a person's hands. Both hands are depicted in a close-up view, with the left hand appearing to hold or support something, while the right hand is relaxed and open. The drawing is done in red chalk on beige paper, showing shading and texture. The paper has slightly uneven edges. The drawing does not include any background context or additional objects, concentrating solely on the hands.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on beige oatmeal paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.7 × 14.1 cm (6 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
    framed: 39.37 × 31.75 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1992.26.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Zaccaria Sagredo [1653-1729], Venice; Maurice de Marignane, Paris; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd.; purchased 1992 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. 42.

Bibliography

2013

  • Manzitti, Camillo. Bernardo Strozzi. Umberto Allemandi, Turin, 2013: 238, 261.

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in brown ink: P(rete).G(enovese) no.8; seventeenth/eighteenth century pen and brown ink verso of mount "P.G. no. 8"

Wikidata ID

Q64537368

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