Agostino Carracci, Studies and Sketches for Figures: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, Male Heads, Seated Monkey, and a Long-Beaked Bird (a Stork?) (recto); Figure Studies:  Back View of Standing Male and Female Heads, a Flying Long-Beaked Bird, etc. (verso)
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Agostino Carracci

Studies and Sketches for Figures: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, Male Heads, Seated Monkey, and a Long-Beaked Bird (a Stork?) (recto); Figure Studies: Back View of Standing Male and Female Heads, a Flying Long-Beaked Bird, etc. (verso)

1557–1602

Current Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk (recto and verso)
Dimensions
27.2 × 19.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-606830

Provenance

Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971

Registry history

  • 1557–1602 — Recorded in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — drawings

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