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Chained Nude Prisoner, after Pietro Tacca

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Chained Nude Prisoner, after Pietro Tacca

Pietro Tacca | Pietro Antonio Novelli

1729–1804

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush with brown, gray, and black wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on violet prepared paper faded to light pink

Tags

Prisoners Male Nudes

Dimensions

10 11/16 x 6 1/8in. (27.2 x 15.5cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Askew, 1981

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pietro Tacca

1577–1640

Tacca was a skilled bronze caster and marble carver who worked in the Mannerist style of Giambologna. It was his technical and stylistic acumen in bronze, however that gained him the patronage of the Medici Dukes. He was granted the use for his lifetime of Giambologna studio by Cosimo II in 1616 and later served Ferdinand II as court artist in Spain. Comment on works: sculptor

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