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Sep 24, 2010
Rear View of Seated Man
Rear View of Seated Man
late 1600s?
Carlo Vimercati
(Italian, 1660–1715)
Red chalk heightened with white chalk
Support: Beige(1) laid paper prepared with a light brown wash
Sheet: 27.8 x 17.8 cm (10 15/16 x 7 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Blumka 1963.72
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Red chalk was a common medium used by artists of the 1600s to make drawings from live models.
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By the late 1600s, painters of religious subjects, such as Carlo Vimercati, sought to make the content of their church decorations more accessible to a general congregation through the use of dramatic gestures and observed naturalistic details. Such artists often relied on figure studies like this drawing of a posed studio assistant to capture the dress and physique of everyday people and thus imbue their paintings with realistic elements.
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