Studies of a Youth Pulling Ropes (recto); Faint Study of a Youth Pulling a Rope (verso)

1610s

Aurelio Lomi

Artist, Italian, 1556 - 1622

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.6 × 29.6 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.167.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

17th or 18th century collection, Florence (Giuseppe Santini?). Possibly Comte Eugène d'Oultremont [1845 - 1916], Aiseau-Presle, Belgium, and by descent. (sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 1985, no. 190). (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, by 2011); (sale, Christie's, London, 3 July 2018, no. 15); NGA purchase (via Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd., London) in 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2011

  • An Exhibition of Master Drawings. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art at Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York, 2011, no. 6 (color).

Bibliography

1991

  • Turčić, Lawrence, and Mary Newcome. "Drawings by Aurelio Lomi" Paragone, XLII (1991): 46, no. 29 (not reprod.).

2012

  • Romalli, Cristiana, in Pierre Rosenberg et al., Dessins de la Collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien. Rennes, 2012: 49, note 7.

2015

  • Ongpin, Stephen. Renaissance to Futurism: A Selection of Italian Drawings, 1500-1920. London, 2015, no. 23 (color).

2019

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 28.

Inscriptions

on verso, very rough sketch of a figure


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