Currently not on view
Seated man holding a rope
Joseph Marie Vien, II, French, 1762 - 1848
formerly attributed to Anonymous
formerly attributed to Anonymous
x1977-43
Information
Title
Seated man holding a rope
Maker
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
41.5 x 52.5 cm. (16 5/16 x 20 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mathias Polakovits
Object Number
x1977-43
Inscription
inscribed: FIN DE | M*IOHANNOT | DANNONAY | 1770
Culture
Type
Materials
Mathias Polakovits;
Gift to the Princeton University Art Museum
formerly attributed to Anonymous
Jim Rubin 6/78 "In a written communication to me, Thomas Gashtgens, has suggested that this last drawing [77-43], which I published as anonymous and which bears an old inscription giving it to Vien, can indeed be given to Joseph-Marie Vien fils."
- James Henry Rubin, David Levine and Pierre Rosenberg, Eighteenth-century French life-drawing: selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1977)., cat. n. 19 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 32
- David Martocci, The Male Nude: Catalogue and Exhibition (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980)., cat. no. 8
- "Sixteenth-to eighteenth-century French drawings from the permanent collection: a checklist of the exhibition," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 43-49., p. 49
