Currently not on view
Male Nude Posing as Christ Crowned with Thorns,
1777–1884
Buenaventura Salesa, Spanish, 1756–1819
2009-58
Information
Title
Male Nude Posing as Christ Crowned with Thorns
Dates
1777–1884
Maker
Medium
Black crayon heightened with white crayon
Dimensions
53 × 37.5 cm (20 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Object Number
2009-58
Signatures
Signed in ink, lower right: Bonav. va Salesa, Español
Inscription
in graphite, on verso lower center: 392 [in circle]
in graphite, on verso lower left: [triangle] 421
Culture
Type
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Subject
Sale, Christies, London, April 1, 1987, lot 171; Joseph F. McCrindle, Princeton and New York
Seated academic nude as Christ
- Fine old master drawings, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1987)., lot 171
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2009," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 69 (2010): p. 51-85., p. 84, p.85 (illus.)
- Lisa A. Banner, Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012)., p. 12, cat. no 4; p. 13 (illus.)
