<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=36.1999&sort_field=added&sort_dir=a&output=rss2 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 04:36:52 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[A Male Nude Pounding]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2801

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Creator

Stefano Della Bella

Title

A Male Nude Pounding

Spatial Coverage

21.6 cm x 19.7 cm (8 1/2 in. x 7 3/4 in.)

Identifier

36.1999

Medium

Red chalk with faint squaring in black chalk on ivory antique laid paper mounted on paper

Description

Very few red chalk drawings by Stefano Della Bella survive. A collector of Rembrandt’s prints and influenced by Jacques Callot, he preferred layering washes of gray or golden inks with black chalk to red chalk. Working rapidly, he would often flip the sheet and rework the drawing on the other side from the ghost image coming through the paper. At the edges of this drawing, stains confirm that the paper is glued down, preventing us from comfirming that it is a two-sided drawing. Della Bella’s delicate lines contrast with the intensity of the moment. Barely visible in the man’s raised hand is an object with three knobs. Supporting himself with the other arm, his whole body braces before the strike. His hair flows back, his mouth rages, and muscles strain. These are attributes normally associated with Samson who “with the jaw of an ass” killed “a thousand men” (Judges 15:16), but the drawing could also be a study of a man hammering, casting back to ten-year-old Della Bella’s apprenticeship in the shop of a metalsmith.

Rights Holder

The Suida-Manning Collection

Date

Florence, 1610 - 1664, Florence

Type

drawing

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