Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman
Medium
red chalk (seated man); black chalk (head of a dog); pen and brown ink over black chalk (seated woman)
Dimensions
12.4 × 12.7 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Nicholas J. Velloney
Accession Number
2003.265
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About this artwork
At age 20, Claude-Joseph Vernet traveled to Italy, where he remained for two decades, painting landscape views of the Roman countryside and stormy, imaginary seascapes for Italian aristocrats and wealthy French and British tourists. Vernet populated his paintings with contemporary figures based on sketches from life, such as the three shown here. Drawn at different times in different media, together they form an amusing glimpse of Italian street life in the 1700s.