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Study of a Married Couple
Also titled Studie van een echtpaar
Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480–1556)
c. 1520 - c. 1525
- Medium
- paper, ink, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 169 mm x width 217 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Lorenzo Lotto made this swiftly executed sketch preparatory to a painted double portrait, which is now in St Petersburg. He squared the composition for transfer to the canvas. Such working drawings were seldom preserved. This is regrettable, because it is precisely the clothing and attributes chosen by the patrons at this early stage that reveal how they wished to be immortalized.
