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Reclining Male Nude, Foreshortened
by Tintoretto
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 3 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997, cat. 311, cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles.
Publications
Lu Bro, Drawing: A Study Guide (New York and London, 1978), p. 108. Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 238-39, no. 311 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto / Italian, 1519-1594
- Date
- 1562
- Medium
- Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper (faded to bluish gray)
- Dimensions
- 18.1 × 27.6 cm (7 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1966.23
Provenance
Private collector; sold, Sotheby's, London, November 11, 1965, lot 41. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.
More by Tintoretto in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00002422
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