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Study of a Young Man (recto); Study of a Standing Man with a Beard (verso), accidental offset
Creator
Andrea del SartoItalian Artist · 1486–1530
All works by this person →Andrea del Sarto, nicknamed Andrea "of the tailor" after his father's occupation, was one of Florence's leading artists in the early 1500s. Except for a visit to Rome around 1511, where his style gained greater monumentality, and a year-long stay in France in 1518, where he completed a few works at the invitation of François I, he spent most of his life in Florence. Patrons admired Andrea's fluent
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- 1523
- Medium
- Black chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The lightly drawn figure of a young man with one arm lifted toward the viewer fills this irregularly trimmed sheet. The boy wears a fashionable outfit including a blouse with wide sleeves gathered on either side of the elbow and decoratively slashed to show the lining underneath and a doublet or vest short enough to reveal his codpiece. Concentrating on the pose and drapery of the figure, Andrea del Sarto merely suggested the head and facial features with a few lines. He changed his mind as he drew the right arm, fingers, and the positioning of the left shoulder, leaving visible *pentimenti*. This drawing served as a preparatory study for the figure of a young male servant standing in the center of a fresco in a Florentine church. The figure's pose and drapery were almost fully resolved in the drawing, with only a few minor adjustments made in the painting. The artist completed the fresco by May 30, 1523, thus scholars date the drawing to before then.
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