Male Nude Tied to a Tree (Saint Sebastian?)
Male Nude Tied to a Tree (Saint Sebastian?)

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Male Nude Tied to a Tree (Saint Sebastian?),

17th century

Italian
x1976-75

Information

Title
Male Nude Tied to a Tree (Saint Sebastian?)
Dates

17th century

Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
25.9 x 18.6 cm (10 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1976-75
Place Made

Europe, Italy, Florence

Inscription
in graphite, on verso center: Frizzoni [in Frank Jewett Mather Jr.'s hand]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in ink, lower right: M [in square] [Lugt 1853a]
Culture
Italian
Type
drawings
Materials
red chalk, paper (fiber product)
Subject
trees, martyrs, saints, men, figures (representations), nudes

Gustavo Frizzoni (1840–1919)?; Frank Jewett Mather Jr., stamp [Lugt 1853a]; Gift of Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. (probably given to the Art Museum in the 1940s)

It was suggested on a mat note by Konrad Oberhuber that this drawing may have been created by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652). Gabriele Finaldi doubted that attribution. It has been suggested that it could be Neapolitan in Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014), but it has also been suggested by Laura Giles that it is Florentine (as per a note in the same Italian catalogue, p. 273).

Adapted from Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014).

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