Study of Two Kneeling Clerics (recto); Study of Standing Youth (verso)
Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, c. 1460-c. 1526)
1507/08
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with black chalk, heightened with white gouache (recto), and pen and black and brown ink, with touches of black chalk, heightened with white gouache (verso), on blue laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 19.5 × 25.2 cm (7 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The Venetian master of narrative painting in the early 16th century, Carpaccio relied on drawings such as this one to study and refine individual figures, which would later be incorporated into his complicated painting cycles. This sheet is related to a painting in the Sala del Gran Consiglio in the Doge's Palace, Venice.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
