About this artwork
This work was modeled on a young studio assistant who appears frequently in Cesi’s drawings, but it was preparatory for a painting of a much older Saint Benedict in the church of San Procolo, Bologna. The black chalk grid would have facilitated the artist in the transfer and enlarging of his design.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Bartolomeo Cesi
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Title
- Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1590
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Medium
- Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black and red chalk
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Dono"; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite, and lower right, in pen and brown ink (in Gurley hand): "Paolo di Dono--1397-1475 / ("Paolo Uccello")"; lower left, in pen and brown ink: "geb 1600"; inscribed on former mount (GCI): "Denes Calmar (probably "Denys Calvaert," as interpreted by Ulrich Middeldorf)
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Dimensions
- 35.2 × 21.4 cm (13 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1922.5404
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/6856/manifest.json
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