Two Male Nudes

c. 1520

Baccio Bandinelli

Artist, Florentine, 1488/1493 - 1560

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.7 x 27 cm (13 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.48.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

C. S. Roos, Mannheim (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 June 1937, no. 305). (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1971); NGA purchase, 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1999

  • Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello 1515-1527, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, Mantua; Akademiehof, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 1999, cat. no. 202.

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974:199.

1982

  • Ward, Roger Barry. "Baccio Bandinelli as a Draughtsman," Ph.D. dissertation for the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1982, 414, no. 415, fig. 61.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: Baccio Bandinelli [r]

Wikidata ID

Q64537106


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