Kneeling Figure (recto); Reclining Figure (verso)
about 1582–1585
- Medium
- Black chalk with white chalk highlights (recto); black chalk (verso), on blue paper
- Dimensions
- 42.1 × 26.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-212792
The use of chalk on blue paper was a common practice of Venetian artists and one that Agostino Carracci used frequently, in order to create mass through broad modeling. In the figure on the recto, Carracci used white chalk to pick up highlights on the man's back and curly locks of hair. Carracci based this drawing on a painting by Veronese that he saw on a trip to Venice and Padua in 1582. During this sojourn, Carracci carefully studied the works of the Venetian masters Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese and made numerous engravings after their paintings.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1582–1585 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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