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Paris Bordone (1500–1571)
Standing Man Playing a Viola da Gamba (Violoncello), late 1530s
Black and white chalk
7 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches (188 x 83 mm.)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909; I, 75
See CORSAIR catalog record for this item »
The present figure is inspired by a similar portrayal of a musician in a pen-and-ink drawing of a pastoral concert by Titian, to whom Bordone was briefly apprenticed.
Whereas Titian's figure is using the bow to point in the general direction of the area circumscribed by the legs of his seated female companion, Bordone's more autonomous figure is playing the instrument. The composition anticipates the poetic depictions of mythological subjects that became popular in the mid-sixteenth century.
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