Baldassare Franceschini
1611-1689
Half-Length Study of a Young Man Seen from the Back, with Detail of the Drapery. Verso: Man Carrying a Bundle and Sword on his Back
16 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (422 x 262 mm)
Red and white chalk, on light gray paper.
1971.12
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor.
Notes
Watermark: crescent.
Verso contains a sketch after the Serving Man with a Bundle and Basket in Andrea del Sarto's "Visitation" fresco in the Cloister of the Barefooted Monks of the Confraternity of St. John the Baptist, Florence
Verso contains a sketch after the Serving Man with a Bundle and Basket in Andrea del Sarto's "Visitation" fresco in the Cloister of the Barefooted Monks of the Confraternity of St. John the Baptist, Florence
Associated names
Astor, Vincent, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 113.
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