Male Nude

1750s

Gian Antonio Guardi

Associated Names
Gian Antonio Guardi

Artist, Venetian, 1699 - 1761

This drawing depicts a figure in a dynamic stance, with one arm bent and the other extended out to the right. The figure's head is partially obscured, turned to the right and tilted slightly back. They appear to have short, curly hair. The person is nude, with some curling, scribbled lines around the waist and groin. One of the person's legs is also bent, resting on an indistinct block on the left. The person casts a shadow below them and to the left, but aside from that the background is empty. The drawing has been done in red on beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk heightened with white on brown paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 42.7 x 29.6 cm (16 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.52.62.a

Associated Artworks

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi

1720

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J.D. Gocking (sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 1973, no. 350); (Katrin Bellinger, Munich, by 1990); purchased 1994 by David Thomson, Toronto; by exchange to William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Master Drawings 1500-1900, Harari & Johns, London, 1990, no. 20.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 197.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 56, fig. 1.

Bibliography

1975

  • Antonio Morassi. Guardi: Tutti i Disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975: 59.

1987

  • Guardi: Metamorfosi dell'immagine. Exh. cat. Castello di Gorizia, Venice, 1987: p. 169 (E.7).

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 197.

Wikidata ID

Q64572217

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