Standing Draped Man [recto]
Jacopo da Empoli
1551 to 1600
Medium
red chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 38.2 x 24.3 cm (15 1/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bertha Leubsdorf in memory of her husband, Karl Leubsdorf
Accession Number
1984.30.1.a
About the Artist
Jacopo da Empoli · 1544–1640
Jacopo Chimenti, known as Jacopo da Empoli (1551-1640), was an Italian Florentine painter whose long career spanned the transition from late Mannerism to early Baroque. Born in Florence on April 30, 1551 (Empoli being his father's birthplace, from which Jacopo derived his artistic name), he became an important figure in the Counter-Maniera or Counter-Mannerist movement that reacted against the com...