Seated Male Nude
Seated Male Nude
Seated Male Nude
Seated Male Nude

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Seated Male Nude,

ca. 1618–24

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1598–1680; born Naples, Italy; died Rome, Italy
2005-128

Although Bernini is known to have been a prolific draftsman, only approximately three hundred of his drawings have survived from his long and illustrious career. Consisting primarily of quick sketches for his sculptural and architectural projects in Rome, his graphic oeuvre also includes a handful of finished red chalk life studies of muscular male nudes. Modest in scale yet powerfully three-dimensional in its effect, this example displays Bernini’s economical handling of red chalk in his creation of fleeting monumentality, whereby both surface and contour are expressively transformed by the flickering light and surrounding atmosphere.

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Seated Male Nude, Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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Title
Seated Male Nude
Dates

ca. 1618–24

Maker
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Medium

Red chalk heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensions

42.2 x 27.2 cm (16 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.)
frame: 61.3 x 45.6 x 3.2 cm (24 1/8 x 17 15/16 x 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund

Object Number
2005-128
Inscription

Inscribed recto, upper left, in brown ink: [. . . ]
Innocente (?); lower center, in pen and brown ink
(in different hand): 11

Culture
Italian
Type
drawings
Materials
heightening, chalk, laid paper
Subject
models (people), staffs (walking sticks), nudes, men

Sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 30, 1991, lot 35 (as “Roman School, 17th century”); Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London; sale, Sotheby’s, London, May 7, 2003, lot 31 (as “Attributed to Annibale Carracci”); Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London; purchased by the Art Museum, 2006.;

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