Youth with Right Arm Raised in a Shoulder-Length Portrayal (preparatory study for St. Sebastian)

Timoteo Viti

ca. 1515 · Soft black chalk, or charcoal, on paper now very darkened (to beige color) · Drawings and Prints

First attributed to Timoteo Viti by Philip Pouncey in 1966, this drawing constitutes a preparatory study for the figure of St. Sebastian, seen at right on the altapiece with The Annunciation with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian painted by Timoteo Viti around 1513-1515 for the Bonaventura chapel in the church of San Bernardino in Urbino, and now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (Reg. Cron. 507). A further large-scale model for the whole composition is in the Corsini collection at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome. (Furio Rinaldi, 2014)

Artist

Timoteo Viti

Date

ca. 1515

Medium

Soft black chalk, or charcoal, on paper now very darkened (to beige color)

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1966