A work made of 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.

Study of Two Kneeling Clerics (recto); Study of Standing Youth (verso)

1507/08

Vittore Carpaccio Italian, c. 1460-c. 1526

Italy

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.

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

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