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Proportions of the foot in profile (Codex Huygens, fol. 64)

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Carlo Urbino
active 16th century

Proportions of the foot in profile (Codex Huygens, fol. 64)

7 1/8 x 5 3/16 inches (183 x 131 mm)
Pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper.
2006.14:64

Purchased in 1938.

Notes
B IV, The fourth book or "Regola" (Theory of proportions), 4, Copies and tracings after Leonardo da Vinci, (a) Studies in human proportions--Panofsky.
Reversed tracing after a drawing in Windsor (Panofsky, p. 49).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "64", in upper right-hand corner, by Constantine Huygens.
Watermark: Head of serpent between letters "BM", fragment.
Associated names
Leemput, Remy van, 1607-1675, former owner.
Leemput, Remy van, Mrs., 17th cent., former owner.
Huygens, Constantijn, 1628-1697, former owner.
Mensing, Ant. W. M., 1866-1936, former owner.
Bibliography
Erwin Panofsky, The Codex Huygens and Leonardo da Vinci's Art Theory, The Pierpont Morgan Library Codex M.A. 1139 (Studies of the Warburg Institute, XIII), London, 1940, p. 49.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department