Seated male Nude seen from behind

Details

CIRCLE OF AGOSTINO CARRACCI
(1557-1602)
Seated male Nude seen from behind
with inscription Ag.no Caraz. (lower right)
pen and brown ink on paper
25,4 x 20,3 cm. (10 x 8 in.)

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1977, lot 75 (as Agostino Carracci).
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

Exhibited

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March 1999 - October 2000, pp. 14 & 85, ill. (as Agostino Carracci).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Agostino Carracci - Die Schule der Zeichnung, 2001 (no cat.).

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Lot Essay

The author of this study was most likely an artist in the circle of the Carracci in Bologna. The composition reminds one of the engravings in the Scuola perfetta per imparare a disegnare tutto il corpo humano, a teaching manual published in the early 17th century and based on drawings by Agostino Carracci. The subject derives from one of the figures in the lower portion of Michelangelo’s Last Judgement (see The Illustrated Bartsch, 39, Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century, no. 71).

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