Standing Male Figure

ca. 1480

Not on view

Considered one of the most gifted draftsmen of the Florentine Renaissance, Filippino was the illegitimate son of the Carmelite friar—and famous painter—Fra Filippo Lippi (ca. 1406–1469) and the pupil of Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445–1510). This drapery study, acquired by the Museum in 1998 as by an anonymous Italian artist, is certainly by the young Filippino, complementing therefore the Museum's other two major drawings by the artist (nos. 36.101.1 and 68.204). Made with a metalpoint on colored prepared paper—a demanding technique that Filippino mastered with ease — the drawing is datable to circa 1475–80 and it shows an abbreviated handling of the draperies and a sculptural conception of the standing figure that are typical of the artist's earliest career.
(Carmen C. Bambach, 1998, rev. 2014)

Artwork Details

Title: Standing Male Figure
Artist: Filippino Lippi (Italian, Prato ca. 1457–1504 Florence)
Date: ca. 1480
Medium: Soft metalpoint, highlighted with white gouache (some touches of black chalk probably added by later hand)
Dimensions: Overall: 6 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (17.5 x 7.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Harry G. Sperling Fund, and Gifts from Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins, Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998
Object Number: 1998.193
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Virgin and Child Attended by Angels, Filippino Lippi Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache — Virgin and Child Attended by Angels
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The Virgin of the Nativity, Filippino Lippi Italian, Tempera and gold on wood — The Virgin of the Nativity
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The Descent from the Cross, Filippino Lippi Italian, Tempera on wood — The Descent from the Cross
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Standing Youth with Hands Behind His Back, and a Seated Youth Reading (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso), Filippino Lippi Italian, Metalpoint, highlighted with white gouache, on pink prepared paper (recto); metalpoint, on pink prepared paper (verso) — Standing Youth with Hands Behind His Back, and a Seated Youth Reading (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso)
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St. Joseph with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist, Filippino Lippi Italian, Pen and brown ink, heightened with white on prepared paper — St. Joseph with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist
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