Private collection, France
Study of a male nude
- Black and white chalk on blue paper
- 13 ¾ × 21 ¼ inches · 349 × 540 mm
- Drawn in 1808
Collections
- Sotheby's, December 11, 1946, lot 143;
- Malcolm Stearns Jr.;
- Private Collection, Connecticut;
- Shannon’s Fine Arts Auctioneers, 29th April 2021, lot 142;
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Literature
- Charles Rhyne, "Constable Drawings and Watercolours in the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art: Part I;" Authentic Works", Master Drawings, no. 2, Summer 1981, p.133, 135 is entry for his No. 25, pp. 142-43, notes 19, 20 and reproduced fig. 7;
- Graham Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven & London, 1996, p. 126, no. 08.49, pl. 729.