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Standing and Seated Figures

1565–1608
Not on view
Francesco Curia can be rightly considered the most relevant artist active in Southern Italy during the Sixteenth century. The present sheet is one of eight pen sketches (Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. nos.1970.101.4-11) figured in an album containing "97 pezzi di Francesco Curia" (97 pieces by Francesco Curia:) once in the collection of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-1728), and then inherited by his son Carl Gustav Tessin (1695-1770), the greatest Swedish collector of drawings of the Eighteenth century. It seems to have been broken up in the latter's lifetime. Eighty-two of these sheets are now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm; those in the Metropolitan Museum came to New York by way of a Swedish collector who acquired them from a collateral descendant of Tessin. In their studies, Per Bjurström and Walter Vitzthum have pointed out the importance of this group of drawings, which forms a touchstone for our knowledge of Francesco Curia as a draughtsman, the most relevant artist of Southern Italy in the Sixteenth century. One of the Stockholm sketches is on a letter addressed to Curia, and another is a study for a painting in the Cathedral of Naples (See here "References" and Per Bjurström, Italienska Barockteckningar, exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1965, p. 21, no. 81).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Standing and Seated Figures
  • Artist: Francesco Curia (Italian, documented Naples 1565/70–1608 Naples)
  • Date: 1565–1608
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink.
  • Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 6 5/8in. (12 x 16.9cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1970
  • Object Number: 1970.101.11
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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The Annunciation, Francesco Curia Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk
The Annunciation
Francesco Curia
1565–1608
The Transfiguration, Francesco Curia Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
The Transfiguration
Francesco Curia
1565–1608
The Last Supper, Francesco Curia Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on beige paper
The Last Supper
Francesco Curia
1565–1608
Lamentation over the Dead Christ, Francesco Curia Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and violet wash, over traces of black chalk
Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Francesco Curia
1565–1608
Woman Kneeling before a Standing Man, and Supplicant Kneeling before an Enthroned Male Figure, Francesco Curia Italian, Pen and brown ink
Woman Kneeling before a Standing Man, and Supplicant Kneeling before an Enthroned Male Figure
Francesco Curia
1565–1608

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