Standing Male Nude

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1637/38

Cecco Bravo
Italian, 1607-1661

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Cecco Bravo
Title: Standing Male Nude
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1637–1638
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper
Dimensions: 41 × 26.8 cm (16 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: George B. and Mary A. Young Fund; Harold Joachim Endowment
Reference Number: 1992.133
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Emmanuel Moatti, Moatti, Dessins Anciens (Paris, 1992), no. 27 (ill.).
Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors).
Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 21, 22, 34 no. 5, 35 (ill.)

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, “Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus schweizer Privatbesitz,” January-February 1968, cat. 98.
Palo Alto, Calif. Stanford Art Gallery, “Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zurich,” November 2-December 14, 1969, cat. 32; also traveled to The Detroit Institute of Art, January 27-March 8, 1970 and The Finch College Museum of Art, New York, April 1-June 15, 1970.

Cosimo Noferi [Moatti 1992]. Cardinal Leopold de’Medici [Moatti 1992]. Kurt Meissner, Zurich, by 1969 [Stanford 1969]. Ian Woodner (died 1990), New York; sold, Christie’s, London, July 2, 1991, Woodner sale, lot 110. Sold by Emmanuel Moatti, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1992.

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