About This Artwork

Vittore Carpaccio
Italian, c. 1460/1465-c. 1525/1526

Study of Standing Youth, c. 1507/1508

Pen and black and brown ink, with touches of black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper
195 x 252 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1962.577V

McCullagh & Giles 91

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Venice, Palazzo Ducale, "Vittore Carpaccio," June 15-October 6, 1963, cat. 24 (ill. recto and verso), as "Workshop collaborator of Benedetto Carpaccio".

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 4 (ill. verso), as "Two Kneeling Ecclesiastics".

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 8-9, cat. 1 (ill. recto and verso), by Harold Joachim.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1-August 1, 1987 (installation).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

Publication History

A. Popham, "The Drawings at the Burlington Fine Arts Club," Burlington Magazine LXX (February 1937), pp. 87-88.

Hans Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters of the15th and 16th Centuries (New York, 1944), pp. 143, 153, no. 618 (ill. recto and verso).

G. Fiocco, Carpaccio (1958), p. 29, no. 3 (ill.).

Rodolfo Pallucchini, I teleri del Carpaccio in San Giorgio degli Schiavoni (Milan, 1961), p. 49.

Jan Lauts, Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings (London, 1962), pp. 37, 257, 272, and 277, no. 31 (ill. recto and verso).

J. Maxon, "A Sheet of Drawings by Carpaccio," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly LVI (Winter 1962), pp. 62-64 (ill. recto and verso).

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 56 (Winter 1962-63), p. 63.

Terisio Pignatti, "Review of Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings by Jan Lauts," Master Drawings 1 (Winter 1963), p. 53.

Guido Perocco, Carpaccio nella Scuola di S. Giorgio degli Schiavoni (Venice, 1964), p. 79 (ill. verso).

Michelangelo Muraro, Carpaccio (Florence, 1966), p. 109.

Manlio Cancogni and Guido Perocco, L’opera completa del Carpaccio (Milan, 1967).

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 142 (ill.).

Suzanne Folds-McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1997), no. 91 (ill. recto and verso).

Ownership History

Lt. Col. Norman R. Colville, London, by February 1937-at least 1944 [Popham 1937; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944]. Francis Springell, London; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 28, 1962, lot 13 (ill.), to Harris [price list]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.