Two Standing Female Figures (Studies after Classical Statuary)
Andrea Boscoli
1577–1587
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 13.8 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingswashprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Although trained in Florence, Boscoli spent several influential years in the 1580s working in Rome, where one of his favorite occupations was the study of classical monuments. This drawing is characteristic of Boscoli's very best studies of Roman statuary; the clear crisp presentation of drapery, and of light and shadow became his trademarks.
