Rear View of Seated Man
Carlo Vimercati (Italian, 1660–1715)
late 1600s?
Medium
red chalk heightened with white chalk
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Blumka
Accession Number
1963.72
Tags
male
About this artwork
By the late 1600s, painters of religious subjects, such as Carlo Vimercati, sought to make the content of their church decorations more accessible to a general congregation through the use of dramatic gestures and observed naturalistic details. Such artists often relied on figure studies like this drawing of a posed studio assistant to capture the dress and physique of everyday people and thus imbue their paintings with realistic elements.