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Kneeling Bearded Old Man (recto); Section of a Draped Limb and Sketches (verso)

1500–1571
Not on view
Vividly rendered with pen and brown ink, brown wash over red chalk, this study was attributed to Nosadella, a pupil of Pellegrino Tibaldi, by Lawrence Turcic in 1979. His suggestion received confirmation in the old annotation, "nosadela", that was revealed when the drawing was removed from its old mount in 1980. The handling of pen and wash in the Museum's drawing is tipycal of the artist, may be usefully compared with that in a study of the kneeling Virgin by Nosadella in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. D 1530). The Edinburgh drawing is related to Nosadella's painting with The Presentation in the Temple (private collection; Sotheby's, July 15, 1970, no. 73 and Christie's, April 24, 1981, no. 95).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Kneeling Bearded Old Man (recto); Section of a Draped Limb and Sketches (verso)
  • Artist: attributed to Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi) (Italian, Bologna (?) ca. 1500–1571 Bologna)
  • Date: 1500–1571
  • Medium: Red chalk, pen and brown ink with brush and brown and red wash, highlighted with a little white (recto); pen sketch of a seated, bearded man, and a red chalk drapery (?) study amongst charcoal or black chalk transfer preparation (verso)
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 15/16in. (22.8 x 17.6cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
  • Object Number: 80.3.487
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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The Adoration of the Magi, Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi) Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, with some traces of white gouache highlights (oxidized); the kneeling male figure at center reworked by the artist with pen and darker brown ink; a strip of paper added at the bottom and the design of the feet of the figure at lower left completed in brush and brown ink by an early hand, not that of the artist
The Adoration of the Magi
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1500–1571
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Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso), Agostino Carracci Italian, Pen and brown ink, some sketches over red chalk, some faint scribbles in charcoal (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray-blue wash (verso)
Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso)
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1600–02
Armor, Steel, copper alloy, textile, leather, Italian
Armor
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Allegorical Composition with Figures of Painting and Fame, Pietro Antonio de' Pietri Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over charcoal, on blue paper (recto); slight architectural sketches in red chalk (verso)
Allegorical Composition with Figures of Painting and Fame
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