id:			160699
accession number:	1998.6
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.6
updated:		2025-08-20 12:39:56.023000

Seated Male Nude, c. 1516–20. Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, 1493–1560). Red chalk; sheet: 40 x 23.7 cm (15 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1998.6

title:				Seated Male Nude
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creation date:			c. 1516–20
creation date earliest:		1511
creation date latest:		1525
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	red chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, 1493–1560)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 40 x 23.7 cm (15 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
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	description:	beige(2) laid paper, lined with Japanese paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Drawn to the Body: The Human Figure and the Graphic Arts, 1500-1900
	opening date:   1999-03-14T00:00:00
	<i>Drawn to the Body: The Human Figure and the Graphic Arts, 1500-1900</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-May 23, 1999).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

	title:		Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
	opening date:   2019-10-13T04:00:00
	<i>Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1964, lot 170 (as Rosso Fiorentino)
	date: 1964
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	with Hans Calmann, London, and W. H. Schab, New York
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	Christie's, London, 8 December 1987, lot 72
	date: 1987
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	Private Collection, New York
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	Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1998, lot 69 (bought in)
	date: 1998
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1998
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ward, Roger. Baccio Bandinelli as a Draughtsman. Ph.D Dissertation, University of London, 1982.
	page number: 	no. 265
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	Ward, Roger, "Observations on the Red Chalk Figure Studies of Baccio Bandinelli: Two Examples in Melbourne," Art Bulletin of Victoria No. 23 (1982): pp. 19-37
	page number: 	pp. 32-36; illus. p. 31
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4108

	"Museum Acquisitions: Cleveland Acquires Bandinelli," Drawing 20 (Fall 1998).
	page number: 	p. 26 (illus)
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	DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 7, p. 11, pp. 34-35, 284; Reproduced: p. 35
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	Joannides, Paul, and Raphael. Raphael and His Age: Drawings from the Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Lille. [France]: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2002.
	page number: 	p. 32, fig. 14
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	Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. 2 Vols. London: Harvey Miller, 2008.
	page number: 	vol. 1, no. 15, pp. 18-19
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	Peters, Emily. “Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>59, no. 5 (September/October 2019): 8-9.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8.
	url:		

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