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Standing Woman

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Girolamo Siciolante
1521-1575

Standing Woman

9 3/4 x 7 inches (248 x 177 mm)
Black chalk and opaque lead white watercolor on blue paper.
2020.52

Gift of the Kasper Collection.

Notes
Active in Rome during the Counter-Reformation, Siciolante over the course of his career turned from the mannerist style of his master, Perino del Vaga, to a more normative style based on life studies like this drawing. This beautiful drapery study on blue paper is preparatory for the fresco of the Visitation in the so-called Fugger Chapel in Santa Maria dell'Anima, the church of the German congregation in Rome. It is the first drawing by the artist in the Morgan collection.
Watermark: Fragment, diagonal in circle. Watermark, beta radiograph. circle 435039wm_2020_52_WM_beta.jpg
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Century Drawings
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