The 50 plates / Plate 34 of 50
Plate 34 of 50
Young Man in a Cloak
Jüngling im Mantel
Andrea del Sarto (?)
Not yet located
The drawing
A full-length study in red chalk of a young man standing in three-quarter rear view, his head turned sharply to the right. He gathers a voluminous cloak across his body, creating broad, sweeping folds emphasized by strong contrasts of light and shadow. The composition focuses on the weight and movement of the drapery rather than facial detail.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Andrea del Sarto (?)
- Title as printed
- Jüngling im Mantel
- Title in English
- Young Man in a Cloak
- Medium and size
- Red chalk on gray paper, 42 × 26 cm
- Inscription
- Inscribed “Andrea del Sarto”, probably by a later hand
- Collection in 1922
- K. W. Hiersemann, Leipzig (formerly A. Grahl, Dresden)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Andrea del Sarto, tentatively attributed by Becker, who explicitly included a question mark after the artist's name. A faint inscription appears at the lower right, but its reading and significance remain unverified. No independent modern attribution to this exact drawing has been established.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 34.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.