Studies of a Male Torso with Additional Studies of Hands, Shoulders, and a Leg, between 1628 and 1719

  • Carlo Cignani, Italian, 1628-1719

Black chalk, heightened with white, on greenish gray antique laid paper with fibrous inclusions

  • Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 15/16 inches (26 × 40.5 cm)
  • 19 × 24 × 1 inches (48.3 × 61 × 2.5 cm)

Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.179

(P. & D. Colnaghi, London, England). [as by Pietro da Cortona.] John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA)

1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Cazort, Mimi and Catherine Johnston. Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, 1982, no. 75, p. 114 (as by Carlo Cignani). Elam, Charles H., ed. The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 26 (ill.). Fifty Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, no. 9, p. 10 (ill.) p. 8 (as by Cortona). Fifty-one Watercolors and Drawings: The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1962, no. 31. Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 74, no. 26.

Carlo Cignani, Studies of a Male Torso with Additional Studies of Hands, Shoulders, and a Leg, between 1628 and 1719, black chalk, heightened with white, on greenish gray antique laid paper with fibrous inclusions. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.179.