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Currently not on display

Domenico Beccafumi

1486 - 1551

Two Male Nudes in a Landscape

Date c. 1537
Materials and Techniques Etching and engraving
Size(cm) 27.2 x 17.0
State 2nd state
Standard ref. Passavant VI, 150, 4; Le Blanc 7; Sanminiatelli, 1967, p. 132, no. 2
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2005-0008

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2005.

Bibliography

1778
Heinecken, Karl-Heinrich von. Dictionnaire des artistes, dont nous avons des estampes: avec une notice detaillée de leurs ouvrages gravés. vol. 2, Leipsig, Breitkopf, 1778, p. 301.
1786
Strutt, Joseph. A Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical Account of All the Engravers, from the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Time. vol. 2, London, 1786, p. 152.
1824
Malaspina di Sannazaro, Luigi. Catalogo di una raccolta di stampe antiche. vol. 2, Milano, Bernardoni, 1824, p. 49.
1834
Brulliot, Franz. Dictionnaire des monogrammes, marques figurées, lettres initiales, noms abrégés etc. avec lesquels les peintres, dessinateurs, graveurs et sculpteurs ont désigné leurs noms. Neuv. ed., vol. 3, München, J. G. Cotta, 1834, p. 129, n. 901.
1836
Ferrario, Giulio. Le classiche stampe dal cominciamento della calcografia. Milano, S. Bravetta, 1836, p. 41.
1851
Mariette, Pierre-Jean. Abecedario, de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes. Montaiglon, Anatole de; Chennevières-Pointel, Philippe de, eds., vol. 1, Paris, 1851/53 (Originally manuscripted in c.1750), p. 96.
1871
Nagler, G. K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen, welche sich zur Bezeichnung ihrer Werke eines figürlichen Zeichens, der Initialen des Namens, der Abbreviatur desselben, &c., bedient haben. vol. 4, München, G. Franz, 1871, pp. 549-550, no. 1765, p. 601, no. 1927.
1920
Trotta Treyden, Hans V. Das Leben und die Werke des Seneser Maler Domenico Beccafumi genannt Mecarino. Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft. vol. 42, 1920, pp. 111-112.
1927
Panofsky, Erwin. Bemerkungen zu der Neuherausgabe der haarlemer Michelangelo-Zeichnungen durch Fr. Knapp. Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. 48, 1927, pp. 32, 34.
1932
Judey, Jacob. Domenico Beccafumi. [Berlin], 1932, p. 132.
1956
Fossi, Maria. Mostra di chiaroscuri italiani dei secoli XVI, XVII, XVIII. Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 1956, p. 8.
1956
Sanminiatelli, Donato. L'esposizione di chiaroscuri agli Uffizi. Paragone. Arte. anno 7, n. 73, 1956, p. 58.
1969
Panofsky, Erwin. Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic. New York, New York University, 1969, pp. 20, 100-101, note, 26.
1976
Ferrara, Stefano; Bertelà, Giovanna Gaeta; D'Amico, Rosa. Incisori toscani dal XV al XVII secolo. Bologna, Edizioni Luigi Parma, 1976 (Catalogo generale della raccolta di stampe antiche della Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, gabinetto delle stampe, sezione 4), no. 69.
1990
Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo (exh. cat.). Milano, Electa, 1990, pp. 478-480, cat. nos. 144-146.
1991
Hartley, Craig. Beccafumi "glum & gloomy". Print Quarterly. vol. 8, no. 4, December 1991, pp. 418-425.
1994
Landau, David; Parshall, Peter. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550. New Haven, Yale University, 1994, pp. 273-274.
2007
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, List of New Acquisitions. p. 64.

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