Francesco Maffei
Study of a seated male nude
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February 5, 05:23 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Francesco Maffei
(Vicenza 1605 - 1660 Padua)
Study of a seated male nude
Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of red and black chalk;
bears attribution in pencil, verso: Tintoretto
197 by 121 mm; 7 ¾ by 4 ¾ in.
Probably John Barnard (d.1784), London (L.1419);
Florenville (or Horenville?), no. 150 (not in Lugt);
Unidentified collector’s mark “W” (L.2591a);
Private Collection, USA
In the 19th century, the present drawing was held in the same collection as another highly comparable work by Maffei, which appeared on the Austrian art market in 2009.1 The two drawings seem to have passed through several subsequent collections together. Both drawings retain related but unidentified inscriptions on the reverse—ours "Horenville No 150" and the Dorotheum drawing "Horenville No 151". In addition to being mounted in the same manner, they also share old inscriptions attributing the drawings to Jacopo Tintoretto. They must have been part of a same project.
1Sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 16 June 2009, lot 549; see B.W. Meijer, Il disegno veneziano, 1580-1650, Florence 2018, p. 241, no. 31, reproduced