drawing
- Museum number
- 1853,0813.26
- Description
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A young man, half-length, in profile to right, wearing a frilled collar and soft hat, his right hand raised
Black chalk, heightened with white, on green paper
- Production date
- 1563-1612
- Dimensions
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Height: 187 millimetres
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Width: 163 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Turner, Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1986
The drawing entered the collection under the old attribution to Annibale Carracci and was transferred in 1940 to Poccetti by Popham who noted the similarity between 1853,0813.26 and a drawing formerly in the Geiger Collection of a half-length figure of a youth holding up a phial, which is signed with the monogram "P" (Sotheby, 1920, 7 to 10 December, lot 239, repr.). Popham also noted that there is a study, apparently from the same model but in a different pose, at Rennes (inv. no. 35/3; Gernsheim no. 542), also by Poccetti, but there attributed to Annibale Carracci.
It is easy to see why the earlier connoisseurs should have confused Poccetti's accurate drawings from the life with the work of his Bolognese contemporary Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), who was renowned for his studies of the type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 Jul-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.55
1986 BM, Florentine Drawings 16thC, no.191
2003/4 Oct-Jan, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 'Graceful and True: Drawing in Florence around 1600'
2004 Jan-Mar, London, Colnaghi's, 'Graceful and True: Drawing in Florence around 1600'
2004 Mar-May, Nottingham, Djanogly Art Gallery, 'Graceful and True: Drawing in Florence around 1600'
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Acquisition notes
- In departmental register as Annibale Carracci
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1853,0813.26