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Study of a Standing Male Nude
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink (a 17th or 18th c. hand): "Jos. Arpina Roma"
Provenance
Possibly Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666), London [stamp (possibly L.2885), recto, lower left, in black]. Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1667–1745), London [stamp (L.2183), recto, lower right, in black]. Private collection, Los Angeles; sold, Bonhams, New York and San Francisco, Apr. 21, 2010, lot 1 (as circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens), to Monroe Warshaw; sold to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Apr. 15, 2011; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 31, cat. 9, p. 132, GC 25, traveled to Berkeley, CA, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Herwarth Röttgen, Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D’Arpino: Die Zeichnungen/I disegni (Opus Magnum, 2013), vol. 2, pp. 240–41, no. 296.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino / Italian, 1568–1640
- Date
- 1595/96
- Medium
- Black chalk on laid paper, laid down on tan laid pulp board
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 17.3 cm (17 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.876
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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-00006201
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