The figure is shown kneeling and holding a book with his left hand as he seems to point out text on the page with his right. Alfonso Pérez Sánchez (Madrid 1980) suggested that this could be a study for an apostle in a Pentecost scene or an Assumption of the Virgin. No painting with an identical figure is known and, like its companions in this group, this is fundamentally a drapery study, and the model has been posed as a kneeling saint or apostle. The artist has focused on how the folds of the ample tunic or cassock arrange themselves around his knees and on the floor, as well as on the application of the diagonal hatching, pressing down on the sheet more or less with the chalk depending on the relief of the fold and whether the drapery area is in medium or full shadow. The drawing demonstrates a certain level of competence in the handling of light and shadow, but the rendition of the external contours of the form is uncertain the artist returns to them several times before fixing them, as can be seen in the profile of the shoulders, the right sleeve, and the line of the face.

Gabriele Finaldi

Details zu diesem Werk

• Beschriftung

  Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso nummeriert: "71" (Bleistift, unterstrichen); unterhalb davon nummeriert: "71" (Bleistift)

• Provenienz

  [José Atanasio Echeverría]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio/Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (from 1874 to 1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of the property of Frederick William Cosens (from November 11 to 21, 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London (from November 1890 to July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (July 14, 1891).

• Bibliographie

  The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, with contributions by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Gabriele Finaldi, José Manuel Matilla u. a., 2014, S. 259, Abb., Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 182

  La colección de dibujos españoles en el Museo de Hamburgo, August Liebmann Mayer, 1920, S. 132-133, Abb.-Nr.

  Die Spanischen Handzeichnungen in der Hamburger Kunsthalle zu Hamburg, August Liebmann Mayer, 1918, S. 115, Abb.-Nr.

  Spanische Zeichnungen von El Greco bis Goya, Wolf Stubbe; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1966, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 215

  El dibujo español de los Siglos de Oro, Pérez Sánchez; Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General del Patrimonio Artístico, Archivos y Museos, 1980, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 270

  A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, vol. III Seville School 1600 to 1650, Angulo Íñiguez and Pérez Sánchez; Herausgeber: Harvey Miller Publisher, 1985, Abb. S. pl. LXX, Abb.-Nr.

  Spanische Kunst von Greco bis Goya, Hugo Kehrer, 1926, S. 219-221, Abb.-Nr.