Kneeling Male Figure with Outstretched Arms (recto); Semi-Nude Seated Male Figure seen from Behind (verso)
Giovanni Battista Naldini
1537–91
Medium
Red chalk (recto and verso)
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 7 5/16in. (29.9 x 18.6cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1994
Accession Number
1994.331
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Naldini · 1535–1591
Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537–1591) was a prominent Italian painter of the late Mannerist period, active primarily in Florence and Rome. Born in Florence, he began his artistic training at the remarkably young age of twelve, entering the studio of Jacopo Pontormo in 1549 for an eight-year apprenticeship that lasted until 1557. Pontormo's influence profoundly shaped Naldini's early style, instill...