Composition Study for an Assumption of the Virgin

Domenico Tintoretto (Domenico Robusti) (in circa 1600-1630)

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Specifications

Title	Composition Study for an Assumption of the Virgin
Material and technique	Black chalk, heightened with white, on yellow-brown paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 375 mm Width 252 mm
Artists	Draughtsman: Domenico Tintoretto (Domenico Robusti)
Accession number	I 87 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1600-1630
Watermark	none (?) (vH, 9P)
Inscriptions	none
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance	Francesco II d'Adda, conte di Sale, Milan (-1641), album of drawings from c. 1630-40, Elenco no. 20; - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1926 (Domenico 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 2010 (coll 2 kw 7)
Internal exhibitions	De Collectie Twee - wissel VII, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Tietze/Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 1512 (attr. Domenico Tintoretto)
Material	Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
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 powerful drawing was already listed as by Domenico Tintoretto and correctly described as a study for an Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the Elenco (inventory) of the seventeenth-century D’Adda album when it was offered for sale to the collector Franz Koenigs in 1926.^[1]The attribution was confirmed by Tietze/Tietze-Conrat (1944), but the drawing has remained unpublished since, so apparently Domenico’s authorship is considered beyond doubt, with which we agree.

There is a superficial compositional resemblance to his father Jacopo’s (1518-1594) early altarpieces in the Chiesa dei Gesuiti in Venice (c.1555) and one now in the Obere Pfarrkirche in Bamberg (1553-56), notably in the upper section with the ascending Virgin accompanied by angels among clouds.^[2]They were painted well before Domenico’s birth, but may have been sources of inspiration later on.

The sheet has been cropped on all sides, but especially at the top, so the Virgin’s head is now missing. Afterwards an early private collector, before D’Adda, cut off the corners, which were later replaced.

Footnotes

^[1]No. 20: ''DOMENICO TINTORETTO. Studio per un Assunzione’; this Elenco is discussed in the introduction to this online collection catalogue.

^[2]De Vecchi 1970, no. 110, ill. (Gesuiti); Pallucchini/Rossi 1982, no. 170, fig. 223 and no. 167, fig. 216; Madrid 2007, p. 45, fig. 14 (Gesuiti).

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