Male Nude Standing in a Fearful Pose, probably 1530s

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 10

Medium

wax

Dimensions

overall: 24.7 cm (9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1992.74.1

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (sculptor)

Niccolò Tribolo (sculptor) Florentine, 1500 - 1550

Michelangelo (related artist) Florentine, 1475 - 1564

Image Use

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Provenance

Europe, before 1924.[1] United States; acquired 1991 by (Anthony Roth Fine Arts, London); purchased 27 July 1992 by NGA.

[1] The work was published in 1924, with no location identified, by A.E. Brinckmann in Barock-Bozzetti: Italian Sculptors, vol. 2, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1924: pls. 1-2. A location in Europe prior to this publication is assumed by the fact that the author, who was working in Rome, was able to obtain photographs.

Associated Names

Roth Fine Arts, Anthony

Bibliography

1924: Brinckmann, Albert E. Barock-Bozzetti. Vol. 2: Italian Sculptors [Italienische Bildhauer]. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1924: pls. 1-2.

1995: Krahn, Volker, ed. Von Allen Seiten Schön: Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock. Exh. cat. Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Altes Museum. Berlin, 1995: 284.

2011: Koshikawa, Michiaki. "Drawings after the ‘Atlas’ Statuette by Jacopo Tintoretto and His Workshop." Aspects of Problems in Western Art History 9 (2011): 19-24, esp. 22.