Copy of a Roman Statue of a Seated Woman
c. 1450–94
- Medium
- pen and brown ink (two different colors) with graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 23 × 12.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209789
The oddness of a sculptural fragment draped with clothing points to the workshop context of this drawing. When young artists became apprentices to master artists, they sometimes learned to draw by sketching from sculptures, even draping them with fabric in order to practice folds and texture. The technique of this pen-and-ink drawing—with closely spaced, crossed lines within tightly closed outlines—ties it to the circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio, a Florentine painter to which Michelangelo was apprenticed in 1487. Apprentices in Ghirlandaio’s large studio were taught his “system” for creating to…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1939.653
Registry history
- c. 1450–94 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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