Studies of Nude Men

Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Niccola Grassi."
Annotations on cardboard support on verso, in blue crayon, "Its [or 5] - A35" along upper left border. Below, in graphite, "Grassi." At center, in pen and brown ink, "163" (ruled out in graphite). In bottom right quadrant, in graphite, "Niccole [?] Grassi." Numbered along bottom right corner, in graphite, "347" (circled and crossed out); "410" (in blue crayon, and again in brown crayon); and an illegible annotation in blue crayon, crossed out in graphite.

Marking: No watermark visible (sheet glued onto secondary cardboard support).

James Jackson Jarves; Cornelius Vanderbilt (American)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Coles Gallery, Tapestries and Paintings...Drawings by Old Masters," 1895.

Coles Gallery, 8: Tapestries and Paintings, Malachites, Vases, etc.; Drawings by Old Masters, Etchings, Photographs, and Tapestries in Gallery 4, Main Hall. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hand-book, no. 8, New York, 1895, cat. no. 410, p. 27.

Terisio Pignatti I disegni veneziani del Settecento. Treviso, n. d. [1965], fig. no. pl. 24, p. 158, ill.

Terisio Pignatti Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings from the Correr Museum. An Exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Arts Council Gallery , London, London, 1965, cat. no. 24, fig. no. 24, p. 158, ill.

Terisio Pignatti Ancora sui disegni del Grassi: Nicola Grassi e il Rococo europeo. Udine, 1982, cat. no. 72, fig. no. 72, pp. 75, 77, ill.

Terisio Pignatti "Nicola Grassi e il Rococo europeo." in Dagli atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi 20/22 maggio 1982. Udine, 1984, fig. no. 72, p. 75, ill.

Terisio Pignatti, Giandomenico Romanelli Drawings from Venice. Masterworks from the Museo Correr, Venice. Exh. cat., New York, The Drawing Center. New York-London, 1985, cat. no. 27, p. 69, ill.

Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 79, fig. no. 79, p. 92, ill.