GERMAN SCHOOL, LATE 16TH-CENTURY Male Nude Seen from Behind<>.
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper. 188x66 mm; 7 3/8x4 5/8 inches. With a study of drapery in black chalk, verso.
The male figure in the current work is copied after a detail on the left side of the Last Judgment<> by Michelangelo, probably after an intermediary engraving or woodcut.
A drawing by the same hand in Erlangen (Bock 782) is copied after a classical sculpture of a man throwing a discus or dancing with castagnettes. Bock further mentions 2 studies of male nudes at Dresden, dated 1575. The sheet in Erlangen is monogrammed and dated 15.LS.72.
Bock's identification of the artist with the Augsburg designer Lorenz Stoer (1530-after 1621) is no longer accepted. The name of the Nuremberg painter Lorenz Strauch (1554-1630) has been tentatively suggested instead.
