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The composition repeated on the reverse; Black chalk on grey paper, heightened with white; Venetian School; ca.1540-1594.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce</u>. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lambert, Susan. <u>Drawing: Technique & Purpose</u>. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981. p.19."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ward-Jackson, Peter, <u>Italian Drawings Volume I. 14th-16th century</u>, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1979, p. 161.\n\nThe text is as follows:\n\n<i>school of</i>\nTINTORETTO, JACOPO\n\n339 \n\n<i>Recto and verso</i> Studies (one on each side of the sheet) from Michelangelo’s lost group pf Samson slaying teo Philistines\r\nInscribed in ink on the mount ‘Tintoretto’\r\nBlack chalk heightened with white on faded blue paper\r\nSize of sheet 14 ¼ x 11 1/8 (361 x 283)\t\t\tDyce 237\r\n\nPROVENANCE Sir J. Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869\r\n\nLITERATURE <i>Dyce Catalogue</i> no. 237 (as by Tintoretto); Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, no. 1841 (school of Tintoretto)\r\n\r\nFor two other studies of the same subject see nos. 340 recto and verso. At least fifteen other similar studies by Tintoretto and his achool are in other collections. 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