Study of a Standing Male Nude: Saint Sebastian, mid-17th century

Not on View

Medium

black chalk, with stumping, on buff laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 41.8 × 24.2 cm (16 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Accession Number

2018.20.3

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Confortini (artist) Italian, 1602 - 1672

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Confortini; 198

Provenance

Jacques Petithory [1928 - 1992], Paris (Lugt 4138). Paul Mathias Polakovits [1921 - 1987], Paris (Lugt 3561). (sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 January 1998, no. 17). Private collection, Tallahassee, until 2012; (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); David McDonnell, Alexandria, VA, 2015; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

McDonnell, David H.
Petithory, Jacques
Polakovits, Mathias
Sotheby's
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

Exhibition History

2013: Master Drawings 2013. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art at Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York, 2013, no. 8 (color).

Bibliography

1977: Monbeig Goguel, Catherine. "Note sur Confortini" Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florence 21 (1977): 109, fig. 4.