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Standing and Kneeking Figures
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691 - 1765)
1735-1740
- Medium
- Red chalk on white paper, laid down
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 15.5 × 19.1 cm (6 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Hugh Cassel
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
A standing semi-drapped male figure is seen from the back, facing slightly right. A heavily draped figure kneels on a block of masonry, seen, from the left side, gesturing with both hands, and his head turned to the left.
