Study of Two Kneeling Clerics (recto); Study of Standing Youth (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1507/08

Vittore Carpaccio
Italian, c. 1460-c. 1526

The Venetian master of narrative painting in the early 16th century, Carpaccio relied on drawings such as this one to study and refine individual figures, which would later be incorporated into his complicated painting cycles. This sheet is related to a painting in the Sala del Gran Consiglio in the Doge’s Palace, Venice.

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Artist: Vittore Carpaccio
Title: Study of Two Kneeling Clerics (recto); Study of Standing Youth (verso)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1507–1508
Medium: Pen and black ink, with black chalk, heightened with white gouache (recto), and pen and black and brown ink, with touches of black chalk, heightened with white gouache (verso), on blue laid paper
Dimensions: 19.5 × 25.2 cm (7 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1962.577
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A. Popham, “The Drawings at the Burlington Fine Arts Club,” Burlington Magazine, LXX (February 1937), pp. 87-88 (recto and verso)
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, pl. 16 and 22.
G. Fiocco, Carpaccio (1958), p. 29, no. 3 (ill.) (recto and verso).
Rodolfo Pallucchini, I teleri del Carpaccio in San Giorgio degli Schiavoni (Milan, 1961), p. 49 (recto and verso).
Jan Lauts, Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings (London, 1962), pp. 37, 257, 272, and 277, no. 31, pl. 120 (ill. recto and verso).
John 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 (recto and verso).
Terisio Pignatti, “Review of Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings by Jan Lauts,” Master Drawings, 1 (Winter 1963), p. 53 (recto and verso).
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).
Harold Joachim, compiled by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Sandra Haller Olsen, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago:, 1979), nos. 2A1-2.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 74-5, no. 91 (recto and verso ill.).

Venice, Palazzo Ducale, “Vittore Carpaccio,” June 15-Oct. 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,” Oct. 17-Nov. 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, “Italian drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 17-July 31, 1980, cat. 4, pl. 6-7; also Washington DC, the National Gallery of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 10-July 22, 1997 (recto and verso).
Washington DC, The National Gallery of Art, “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice”, November 14, 2022 - February 12, 2023, pp. 244, 246 (verso, fig 1. ill.), 247 (recto, ill.), cat. 61, cat. by Peter Humfrey, et. al.

Lt. Col. Norman R. Colville (1893-1974), London, by Feb. 1937-at least 1944 [Popham 1937; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944]. Dr. Francis Carl Springell (1898-1974), 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.

McCullagh & Giles 91

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