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Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
A seated male nude c. 1630
Red chalk on buff paper | 55.9 x 42.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905538
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A male nude facing right, seated on a rock, with his left hand holding his raised left foot.
Along with 905537 (qv), this is one of four red-chalk studies of the same model by Bernini. Despite the old pencil inscription to Bernini, the drawing was catalogued by Blunt in 1960 as 'a characteristic drawing' by Pietro da Cortona, but it is plainly by the same hand as 905537.
Inscribed in pencil, C18th: Cave BerniniProvenance
Probably acquired by George III in 1762 as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. First recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1800-1820 (Inv. A, p. 106, Accademie di Diversi Autori , among five drawings supposedly by Bernini)
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Red chalk on buff paper
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55.9 x 42.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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