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The image shows a drawing of a person seated with their legs crossed, leaning slightly to the right. One arm is resting on their knee while the other hangs to the side. The person's facial features are undefined, and their hair is drawn with flowing lines. They are depicted as nude, sitting on a surface resembling cloth. The background is a plain blue-gray color.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Seated Male Nude
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Date
- 1752/1753
- Medium
- red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 28.9 × 37 cm (11 3/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2007.111.170.a
- Credit line
- Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
- Time span
- 1751 to 1775
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Baroque
- Venetian
- Seated figure
- Male nude
Provenance
Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresia Caroline and her husband Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; (their sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882); Dr. Oscar Eisenmann, Cassel; Wilhelm Lübke, Stuttgart; (Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt); Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano; (his sale, Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 24-25 April 1931, no. 103); Dr. Erich Alport, Oxford; (sold by his estate, Christie's London, 4 July 1972, no. 186); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Inscription
lower right, red chalk, signed (?), Tiepolo Fct; verso, lower left, brown ink, "G.B.T." and (Bossi Beyerlen numbers) "f.1 [1 florin] C.M. [Conventions-Münze]" and "No 2793"
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