Study of a Seated Old Man Artist: Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, 1581–1641)

ca. 1604

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Black chalk with white heightening on blue paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (47 × 37.5 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2003.103.1

Culture

Italian

Period

17th century

Classification

Drawings

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Provenance
(Probably the "old man, sitting on ground, with left hand lifted, black chalk, with touches of white, on blue paper" by Domenichino, sold Bern, Gutekunst and Klipstein, 21-22 June 1949, lot 573); Private collection, New Jersey (as school of Annibale Carracci); acquired from Mia Weiner, Norfolk, Conn

Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky, Suzanne Boorsch, and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 24, 26, 116–17, 140, no. 31, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), human figures (visual works), study (visual work)

Subject

nudes pose

Inscriptions

verso, center, in pencil: 174.88a

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