Figure Studies

Inscription: Illegible annotation in graphite, at bottom left of sheet (see also acc. no. 67.65), and, in pen and brown ink, at bottom right corner (sheet cropped at lower border).
Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower border of old mount, "Sebastian Ricci"; at bottom left, in graphite, "102"; at bottom right, "JB" (Lugt 1419).
Annotated on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, "J:B N:512. / 11¼ by 7½" (Lugt 1420).

Marking: Collector's mark on bottom right, "JB" (Lugt 1419).
Annotated on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, "J:B N:512. / 11¼ by 7½" (Lugt 1420).

John Barnard (British)The drawing may have been included in the John Barnard sale held at Leicester Square, London, Feb. 17, 1787, see number 1, "Three by Imperiale and Seb. Ricci"; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.; Hugh N. Squire (British)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.

Jacob Bean "Form and Function in Italian Drawings: Observations on Several New Acquisitions." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 21, no. 7, New York, March 1963, fig. no. pl. 8, p. 235.

Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 39.

Michael Milkovich Sebastiano and Marco Ricci in America. Exh. cat., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, and University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington. Memphis, Tennessee, 1966, cat. no. 67, p. 51.

Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III: Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1971, cat. no. 5, p. 22.

Aldo Rizzi Sebastiano Ricci disegnatore. Exh. cat., Museo Civico, Sala Aiace del Comune, Udine. Museo Civico, Sala Aiace del Comune, Udine, Udine, 1975, cat. no. no. 72, ill.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 17th century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, cat. no. 320, fig. no. 320, p. 242., ill.