Nude Man Carrying a Rudder on His Shoulder
about 1555–1556
- Medium
- Black chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue paper
- Dimensions
- 28.7 × 15.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-207580
In this masterful drawing of a nude man hoisting a rudder on his shoulder, Titian used the blue paper that artists in Venice so often favored. The blue served as a middle tone, with the shadows and outlines drawn in black chalk and the rippling back muscles highlighted in white. Just as in his characteristically textural paintings, Titian combined the three colors to fully model a three-dimensional figure. The smudgy, roughly applied black chalk accentuates the impression of the varied play of light over a sculptural form. The figure's unusual, slightly twisted pose is the focus, rather than such details as the man's facial features.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1555–1556 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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