Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Male Nude, Standing, with Arms Positioned as if to Shoot an Arrow

Maso Finiguerra
1426-1464

Male Nude, Standing, with Arms Positioned as if to Shoot an Arrow

ca. 1450-1460
8 x 4 3/8 inches (203 x 113 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, inscribed with stylus, on laid paper.
I, 4:1

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Associated names
Pollaiuolo, Formerly attributed to the school of.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 18.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:4; Berenson 1938, 2:271, no. 1947C; Ortolani 1948, 171, no. 14; Berenson 1961, 2: no. 1947C; Fenyö 1963, 92; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 1: under no. 620, 614; Kubiak 1974, 102, 184; Melli 1995, 53, 99, no. 147; Angelucci and Cordellier 2016, 24n34.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 4, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department