A Kneeling Man in Fifteenth-Century Costume (recto); a small, fragmentary sketch of a recumbant boy, probably by a later hand (verso)

Circle of Pinturicchio Italian

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This figure was probably copied from a larger narrative drawing attributed to Pinturicchio (now in the British Museum, London), depicting the Clemency of Scipio, the Roman general. The nearly identical figure in the London drawing represents the father of a captive maiden who kneels before Scipio’s throne. Both drawings may have been preparatory studies for the now lost fresco of the same subject that Pinturicchio painted in the Palazzo Petrucci (Palazzo del Magnifico) in Siena in 1509.

A Kneeling Man in Fifteenth-Century Costume (recto); a small, fragmentary sketch of a recumbant boy, probably by a later hand (verso), Circle of Pinturicchio (Italian, Perugia 1454–1513 Siena), Metalpoint, heightened with white, reworked with the point of the brush and gray ink, on gray prepared paper.

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A Kneeling Man in Fifteenth-Century Costume (recto); a small, fragmentary sketch of a recumbant boy, probably by a later hand (verso), Circle of Pinturicchio (Italian, Perugia 1454–1513 Siena), Metalpoint, heightened with white, reworked with the point of the brush and gray ink, on gray prepared paper.
A Kneeling Man in Fifteenth-Century Costume (recto); a small, fragmentary sketch of a recumbant boy, probably by a later hand (verso), Circle of Pinturicchio (Italian, Perugia 1454–1513 Siena), Metalpoint, heightened with white, reworked with the point of the brush and gray ink, on gray prepared paper.

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