Seated Female Nude
early 17th century
Medium
Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions
7 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (18.7 x 27.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.540
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Art Historical Context
Domenico Tintoretto (1560–1635), son of the renowned Venetian master Jacopooretto, created this *Seated Female Nude in the early 17 century. As a key figure in Venice's late Mannerist tradition, Domenico specialized in portraits, religious scenes, and intimate figure studies like this one. His drawings, often preparatory for larger paintings, capture the human form with a dynamic energy inherited from his father, bridging Mannerism's elegance with emerging Baroque naturalism. Rendered in black and white chalk on blue paper—a favored Renaissance technique known as *pastiglia* or three-chalk me...
About the Artist
Domenico Tintoretto
Son and assistant of the famous Venetian painter, Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto. He is known primarily as a portrait painter, although Domenico executed other subjects as well. Comment on works: religious, mythology, Portraits