First attributed to Timoteo Viti by Philip Pouncey in 1966, this drawing constitutes a preparatory study for the figure of St. Sebastian, seen at right on the altapiece with The Annunciation with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian painted by Timoteo Viti around 1513-1515 for the Bonaventura chapel in the church of San Bernardino in Urbino, and now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (Reg. Cron. 507). A further large-scale model for the whole composition is in the Corsini collection at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome. (Furio Rinaldi, 2014)
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Title:Youth with Right Arm Raised in a Shoulder-Length Portrayal (preparatory study for St. Sebastian)
Artist:Timoteo Viti (Italian, Urbino 1469–1523 Urbino)
Date:ca. 1515
Medium:Soft black chalk, or charcoal, on paper now very darkened (to beige color)
Dimensions:7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (19.7 x 13.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1966
Object Number:66.53.5
Inscription: The recto of the early mount is annotated in graphite at lower right border: "from the Davarinn Collection / Girolamo Genga. / Born 1476 / Died 1551". At lower right corner of old mount, "D 29176". On the verso of the early collector's mount are the remnants of a printed map.
Marking: Colnaghi stock number in graphite at lower right corner on old mount: 29176
Davarinn(according to inscription on old mount)
Adolfo Venturi Storia dell'arte Italiana. part 3, vol. 7, Milan, 1914, fig. no. pl. 739, ill.
Sylvia Ferino-Pagden Maestri umbri del Quattro e Cinquecento. Florence, 1977, p. 24, no. 20.
Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi Disegni Toscani e umbri del primo rinascimento dalle collezioni del Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe. Exh. cat., Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Villa alla Farnesina alla Lungara. Rome, 1979, pp. 45-46, under no. 30.
Maria Catelli Isola, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò et al. The Famous Italian Drawings in the Gabinetto Nazionale of Rome. Milan, 1980, p. 130 (entry by Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi).
Maria Catelli Isola, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi, Giulia Fusconi I grandi disegni Italiani dal Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe di Roma. Milan, 1980, under no. 12 (entry by Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi).
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, pp. 266-67, no. 271.
Sylvia Ferino-Pagden in Raffaello e Brera. Exh. cat., Pinacoteca di Brera. Milan, 1984, p. 76.
Robert G. La France "Timoteo Viti and Raphael" Late Raphael. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, October 2012.. Madrid, 2013, p. 134 n. 35 (incorrectly described as a cartoon, because this is a small-scale figural study).
Furio Rinaldi Timoteo Viti, 1469-1523.Università degli studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata'. PhD diss., 2014 pp. 194-96, no. 80, repr.
l Primato del Disegno. I disegni dei grandi maestri a confronto con i dipinti della Pinacoteca di Brera: dai Primitivi a Modigliani Exh. cat. Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera (May 9 - July 19, 2015). Ed. by Sandrina Bandera, Milan, 2015, p. 108, under no. 28A (entry by Furio Rinaldi).
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