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Description: Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink: Gio.mo Tintoreto

Provenance: J.T. Sergel (Lugt 2339b)

An attempt to reconstruct the activities of Paris Bordone as a draughtsman was made by Tietze in 1944. As early a writer as Vasari notes that Bordone imitated Titian, in the first place as regards drawings. Bordone probably worked for Titian in the early 1520s, when he adopted a manner of drawing which is very close to that of the master. During the next decades he kept to this manner on the whole, though his work does acquire a more personal character.

As a starting-point, Tietze took a study for the fisherboy in the foreground of "The fisherman delivering the rinq to the doge", from 1534. Our drawing has a purely technical affinity with this sheet, which has the same wealth of short, sharp folds and the contrast between light and dark parts of the costume.

Stylistically, however, there are closer parallels in drawings that have been dated to Bordone's later work, for instance "The draped figure" in the Uffizi, Florence, which has the same loose form as our sheet. Rearick is inclined to date that drawing to the 1650s and emphasizes its representativeness for the artist's late work "con il suo gioco luministico nervoso e franto sul panneggio svolazzante e la sua tendenza a evitare brani anatomici difficoltosi come ad esempio la mano". This description is equally applicable to our sheet, which no doubt likewise belongs to Bordone's later years  [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 6]

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