Sheet of Studies with Male Portrait; Artist Unknown, Italy

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Accession Number
2009/1.495
Title
Sheet of Studies with Male Portrait
Artist
Artist Unknown, Italy
Artist Nationality
Italian
Medium and Support
graphite, brown and black ink on paper
Object Creation Date
17th century
Credit Line
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Style/Group/Movement
Baroque
Period
Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
Dimensions
53.66 cm x 43.5 cm (21 1/8 in. x 17 1/8 in.)
Century
17th-18th century
Physical Description
This graphite and ink drawing is of a bearded man who wears a large hat. There are two stamps in the center left side near his head.
A bust-length study of a bearded man appears on one side of this sheet. His torso faces frontally, but his head is turned in ? profile to his left. He wears a shirt with a collar and a hat with a plume. The reverse of the sheet is filled with approximately 12 small sketches of heads, faces, limbs, and full-length figures. A sketch of a radial star shaped decorative pattern is on the right edge. In the middle of the sheet is a basket of fruit and flowers and in the upper left there is a drawing of a figure rowing a boat in a landscape.
Subject Matter
The accumulated sketches on both sides of this sheet by at least three different artists, probably from the seventeenth or eighteenth century, reveal its use as a place where a succession of artists jotted down and quickly tested their ideas. From the placing of the sketches one can discern how each artist turned the sheet to find available space for their drawing.
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