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Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (1480–1548/49)
Head and Shoulders of a Bearded Man
Black and white chalk, with some brown wash; outlines pricked for transfer
10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (267 x 193 mm.)
Gift of Benjamin Sonnenberg, 1977; 1977.61
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Brescian by birth, Savoldo lived in Venice from at least 1520 until 1548. He was an exceptionally rare draftsman, to whom only about fifteen drawings have been attributed. His drawings exhibit the same sense of atmosphere and luminosity that characterize the chalk drawings of Titian, Lotto, and other painters of the Venetian school.
The sitter is shown in contemporary dress. His sidelong glance leveled at the viewer and full lips—parted as if about to speak—make this one of the most intriguing of Savoldo's portraits.
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