A Striding Youth with His Arms Raised, Seen from Behind
c. 1579
Jacopo Tintoretto
Artist, Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal on oatmeal paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 36.3 × 22.2 cm (14 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1975.71.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1975, no. 188, repr. p. 36); NGA purchase (via Yvonne tan Bunzl) in 1975.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 44.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 28.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 47 (fig. 99), repro.
Bibliography
1975
Sotheby's, London, 7/4/75: 188, ill. p.36.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 666, no. 1056, color repro.
1995
Martinez, Benjamin, and Block, Jacqueline. Visual Forces, An Introduction to Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988: 138-139, fig. C; 2nd ed. with revised text, 1995: 97, fig. D.
2001
Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 215, fig. 11.14.
2018
Marciari, John.Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice. Exh. cat. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019: 130, no. 47 (fig. 99).
Inscriptions
upper right stamped: 48; lower right effaced inscription
Watermarks
Armillary sphere closest to Briquet 13,991 (Vicenza, 1559)
Wikidata ID
Q64580083