The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 4, 2024
Rear View of Seated Man
late 1600s?
(Italian, 1660–1715)
Sheet: 27.8 x 17.8 cm (10 15/16 x 7 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Red chalk was a common medium used by artists of the 1600s to make drawings from live models.Description
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.- Ludwig Pollak, Rome (Lugt 788b, lower right, in black ink). [Salocchi & Freschi, Florence]
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.72