Study of Two Kneeling Clerics (recto); Study of Standing Youth (verso)
Vittore Carpaccio
1507–1508
- 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
- Dimensions
- 19.5 × 25.2 cm (7 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingsgouacheprints and drawinginorganic materialwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
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.
