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Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"

c. 1711

Marcantonio Franceschini

(Italian, 1648–1729)
Culture
Italy, 18th century
Medium
red chalk
Support
Cream (3) laid paper
Measurements
Sheet: 25.3 x 35.1 cm (9 15/16 x 13 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 31.6 x 43.6 cm (12 7/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy West 2003.7
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This sheet of studies in red chalk was made in preparation for the composition Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharaoh, a final episode in the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. The Bolognese artist Marcantonio Franceschini painted the cartoon of the complete composition between 1711 and 1712, and it was used to decorate an important papal building, the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, where it remains today. While the studies of feet and the head and shoulders with raised arms are for the principal figure of Miriam playing the tambourine, the arm on the right and the two hands holding a rod are studies for an attendant figure who plays the triangle behind Miriam.
A horizontally oriented red chalk drawing on light brown paper features various anatomical sketches. At the top, a woman turns her head to the right with downcast eyes. Other sketches include a raised arm with pinched fingers on the right and an arm on the left. Below, two hands grasp thin rods between sketches of feet in the corners. Fine hatched lines define the muscular forms throughout the composition.

Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"

c. 1711

Marcantonio Franceschini

(Italian, 1648–1729)
Italy, 18th century

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