Workshop of Tintoretto

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Workshop of Tintoretto
1518-1594
Study of the Grimani Vitellius
ca. 1570-1580
Charcoal, with white chalk wash, on blue laid paper altered to brown.
13 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (333 x 249 mm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stern.
1959.17
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Watermark: none.
Study after the antique.
Occasionally, some member of Tintoretto's workshop would exert more independence than his fellow artists and make a drawing with a more distinct character than is found in most of the studies after the Vitellius. This is one such example. It cannot have been made by Tintoretto himself, for it was drawn by a left-handed draftsman, or at least one who favored hatching from upper left to lower right. Other sheets by this left-handed assistant are found among the Tintoretto drawings in a number of museum collections. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice"

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Purchased from P & D Colnaghi and Co., London; Anne and Carl Stern.
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Stern, Carl, former owner.
Stern, Anne Bigelow, former owner.

Bibliography: 

John Marciari, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, New York, 2018, no. 34, fig. 72, repr.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Tenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1960, p. 50-51.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, p. 68, no. 114.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 173.
European drawings, 1375-1825 / catalogue compiled by Cara D. Denison & Helen B. Mules ; with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981, no. 25.
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 39, 45 (repr.)

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