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Male Nude: Study for the Resurrection,
1578–81
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Italian, 1518–1594
x1946-83
This minimal charcoal sketch is a typical drawing from Tintoretto’s mature period. It can be connected to The Resurrection of Christ in the Sala Superiore of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. Tintoretto and his workshop executed this canvas and eleven others for the walls of the room between 1578 and 1581. Probably drawn from a wax or clay figurine, this vigorous male nude is a study for one of the angels prying away the slab that sealed Christ’s tomb.
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Information
Title
Male Nude: Study for the Resurrection
Dates
1578–81
Medium
Charcoal on gray-brown laid paper, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
27.6 × 18.4 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
frame: 54.6 × 41.6 × 2.9 cm (21 1/2 × 16 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1946-83
Inscription
Inscribed recto, lower right, in brown ink:
G. Tintoretto
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: Anchor within circle (not documentable);
Square stamp[?], lower right (above name inscription), "SR/IR" (noted on accession card as "Reynolds" stamp)
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 688
Culture
Materials
Subject
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), stamp (L. 2364); Frank Jewett Mather Jr., no stamp.;
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Hans Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries (New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1944).
, p. 240, no. A1359 - Antoine Seilern, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW 7, (London: Shenval Press, 1959)., p. 50, no. 101, fig. 22
- Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, with a group of sixteenth-century Venetian drawings; a loan exhibition 12 February-13 March 1960, (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1960)., no. 31
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 45
- Terisio Pignatti, Venetian drawings from American collections: a loan exhibition, organized and circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974-1975: introduction and catalogue, (Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974)., no. 14 (illus.)
- Paola Rossi, "I Disegni di Jacopo Tintoretto", Terisio Pignatti, ed., Corpus Graphicum, (Firenze?: La Nuova Italia, 1975-)., p. 44 and 52; fig. 113
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 139, no. 448 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Rudolfo Palluchini and Paolo Rossi, Tintoretto, Le opere sacre e profane, (Venezia: Alfieri, 1982)., vol. 1: p. 205
- 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)., p. 243, app. no. 50 (illus.)
