# Study of Two Kneeling Clerics (recto); Study of Standing Youth (verso)

- By: Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, c. 1460-c. 1526)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Helen Regenstein Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113631)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/028cb772-ed60-1357-d4bd-623d2f826922/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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