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Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)

1554–61
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)
  • Artist: Battista Franco (Italian, Venice ca. 1510–1561 Venice)
  • Date: 1554–61
  • Medium: Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) (the ink of this latter study has bled through at lower left of recto)
  • Dimensions: 7 5/16 x 12 9/16in. (18.6 x 31.9cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
  • Object Number: 80.3.58
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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