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The image shows a person in a dynamic stance with one leg bent and one arm resting on a rectangular surface. The figure is facing away from the viewer with long hair flowing down to the neck. They are wearing flowing robes and holding a tablet. The background is a simple textured surface.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Saint Holding a Book
Attributed to Gioacchino Assereto
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- red chalk and brown wash, heightened with white and incised for transfer on wove paper; verso rubbed with red chalk covering a red chalk study of a reclining man seen from behind
- Dimensions
- overall: 28.8 x 19.5 cm (11 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1991.150.68
- Credit line
- Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
- Time span
- 1601 to 1650
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Italian
- Standing
- male
- figure
Provenance
Santo Varni, 1887 (Lugt undescribed); János Scholz, New York (Lugt undescribed); Helene C. Seiferheld, New York, 1962; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, March 1962; gift to NGA, 1991.
Inscription
by later hand, upper right in pen and brown ink: N 44; by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: No 74 Collezn Saint Varni; by later hand lower center verso in graphite: Strozzi, Bernardo / Vent de Sanctis, 1947 / (Kundig) No 243
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