Baccio Bandinelli
Male Nude who leans on one knee in a contrapposto pose (Study related to the Laocoön)

Male Nude who leans on one knee in a contrapposto pose (Study related to the Laocoön)

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Male Nude who leans on one knee in a contrapposto pose (Study related to the Laocoön)
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Male Nude who leans on one knee in a contrapposto pose (Study related to the Laocoön)
Datec. 1520–1525
MediumPen and iron gall ink on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 14 3/16 × 8 3/4 in. (36 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment and the Vaughn Foundation Fund in memory of Isabel B. Wilson
Object number2015.259
Not on view

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ProvenanceUnknown collection, Germany; [Ingrid Knirim Kunsthandel, Münster, Germany, by 1998-May 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History"Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14–April 16, 2017.

"Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: inscribed in graphite, right bottom edge: Baccio Bandinelli / von Florenz / 1487 + 1557
Watermark: [None]

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