Seated Male Figure with the Head of an Onlooker (recto); Standing Male Figure in a Monk's Habit (verso)
1548–1612
Medium
Charcoal with traces of white chalk highlights
Dimensions
sheet: 15 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (39.4 x 23.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno de Bayser, 2000
Accession Number
2000.91.1a, b
Tags
Art Historical Context
This double-sided drawing by Bernardino Poccetti, a Flor artist active during the late Renaissance (1548–1612), the immediacy of his preparatory sketches. On the recto, a seated male figure shares the composition with the probing head of an onlooker suggesting a moment of interaction or narrative tension. Flipped over, the verso reveals a male clad in a monk's habit evoking the religious themes prevalent in Poccetti's frescoes for churches like Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Measuring just 15½ × 9⅜ inches, this intimate sheet invites close viewing, revealing the artist's fluid exploration of...
About the Artist
Bernardino Poccetti · 1548–1612
Italian late Renaissance fresco painter, Florence. Comment on works: religious; in Pilkington he is credited with flower paintings