A draped male figure seen from behind

Details

PARIS BORDONE (TREVISO 1500-1571 VENICE)
A draped male figure seen from behind
with inscription 'di Paolo Veronese' (on fragmentary mount)
black chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper, top corners cut
6 1⁄8 x 4 3⁄8 in. (15.5 x 11 cm)

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (L. 2092).
Paul Mathey (1844-1929), Paris.
with Georges Aubry, Paris.
Alfred Normand (1910-1993), Paris (L. 153c).
Private collection, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 March 2000, lot 13.

Literature

W. Rearick, ‘The Drawings of Paris Bordon’, in Paris Bordone e il suo tempo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Treviso, 1987, p. 52, ill.
A. Donati, Paris Bordone catalogo ragionato, Cremona, 2014, no. D35, ill.

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Lot Essay

When Roger Rearick published the drawing for the first time (Rearick, op. cit., p. 52), he connected the energetic and rapid execution of the sheet with that of other studies made when, around 1534, Paris Bordone was working on his masterpiece the Presentation of the ring to the Doge for the Scuola Grande di San Marco (now in the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice; see Donati, op. cit., no. 80, ill.).

For his studies Bordone often employed a broad technique, delineating the figures with rapid and expressive strokes of black and white chalk.

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