Studies of a Youth Pulling Ropes (recto); Faint Study of a Youth Pulling a Rope (verso)
1610s
Artist, Italian, 1556 - 1622

Artwork overview
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Medium
black and white chalk on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.6 × 29.6 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
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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