Cleveland Museum of Art

Rear View of Seated Man

Carlo Vimercati

Date: late 1600s?
Medium: red chalk heightened with white chalk
Culture: Italy, 17th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

By the late 1600s, painters of religious subjects, such as Carlo Vimercati, sought to make the content of their church decorations more accessible to a general congregation through the use of dramatic gestures and observed naturalistic details. Such artists often relied on figure studies like this drawing of a posed studio assistant to capture the dress and physique of everyday people and thus imbue their paintings with realistic elements. Red chalk was a common medium used by artists of the 1600s to make drawings from live models.

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