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Figure Study for St John the Baptist

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Title Figure Study for St John the Baptist
Material and technique Black chalk
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Width 204 mm
Height 297 mm
Artists Student of: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti)
Accession number I 401 (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1570-1590
Watermark none (vV, 10P)
Inscriptions '28' (below right, pen and red ink), '19a' (below right, pencil), '59' (verso, below left, pencil, within a cadre)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (Jacopo Tintoretto); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions Rotterdam 1999; Sidney 1999; Rotterdam 2010 (coll 2 kw 6)
Internal exhibitions De Collectie Twee - wissel VI, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010)
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature Tietze/Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 1828, pl. 126.2 (workshop J. Tintoretto)
Material
Object
Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Place of manufacture Venice > Veneto region > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

This study has remained unpublished since it was summarily dismissed as a Tintoretto workshop drawing by Tietze/Tietze-Conrat (1944).

The focus in this study is on the contours of the naked body, but the rendering of the anatomy is awkward, especially in the shoulders and the hips. The draughtsman, probably a junior apprentice taking part in one of his first life drawing sessions, drew vertical lines to help structure the head and torso, also making a pentimento in the position of the arm holding the staff. Yet the resulting figure, standing in an elegant pose, is not unattractive.

Judging from the similar numbers in red ink, this drawing and other figure studies, also from the Koenigs Collection (I 400, 402, 403, 404, 405), were once kept together in a collector’s portfolio.

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Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Jacopo Robusti)

Venetië 1518/1519 - Venetië 1594

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