Andrea BOSCOLI (Florence, 1560 - 1608, Rome), Four male nudes, c. 1580

Andrea BOSCOLI (Florence, 1560 - 1608, Rome)

Four male nudes, c. 1580

Red chalk on paper washed light pink

10 5/8 x 14 7/8 in
26.9 x 37.8 cm

Bears recent attribution in red chalk lower right: M Bon[naroti]; old attribution in pen and brown ink on the verso: Mi....l Buonarotti and in red chalk: No 8, and inscriptions in black chalk: Diese Capitalzeichnung stamt aus der fürstl Schwarzenbergs Saml., and in another hand: 4 Giganten…

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Dukes of Schwarzenberg Collection (from an inscription on the verso)

Arnold Otto Meyer (1825-1913), Hamburg (L.1994)

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For an example of a red chalk study dating to the late 1580s, see J. Brooks, Graceful and True, Drawing in Florence c. 1600, exhib. cat., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 2003, p. 66, no. 17, reproduced

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