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Study of a Young Man Standing

Artist Vittore Carpaccio Italian, Venetian, 1465 - 1525

Date1494

Period15th century

Classification(s)

Art / Drawings

Object TypeDrawing

Extent1 sheet

Registration NumberFAS/D/4

DescriptionA preparatory study for the figure dressed in red in the centre-left of Carpaccio's opening panel 'Arrival of the Ambassadors' from the Life of St Ursula Cycle, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.Material

Pen and brown ink with white lead hightening on blue paper (discoloured)

Technique

Drawing

Place of Manufacture

Venice, Italy

DimensionsSupport: 21.5 x 11.5 cmProvenanceAcquired for the museum in 1933 from an unknown private collection in Malta. Published ReferencesHumfrey, Peter, Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, Yale University Press, New Haven London (2022), 132.
Museum Annual Report (MAR) 1933-34, p. 15.
Stefania Lumetta, I Grandi Disegni del National Museum of Fine Arts di Valletta, Malta. L'Acquisizione di Vincenzo Bonello negli anni di curatela 1933-34, unpublished thesis, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Storico Artistici, Università degli Studi di Genova, 2013; pp. 21-24.
John Cauchi, 'Un disegno del Carpaccio ed uno del Perugino a La Vallette', Paragone, XVII, no 191, 1966, pp. 44-45.Exhibition History'Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice,' National Gallery of Art, Washington, November 20, 2022- February 12, 2023 'Vittore Carpaccio. Dipinti e disegni,' Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, March 18 - June 18, 2023Bibliography

Humfrey, Peter, Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, Yale University Press, New Haven London (2022)

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