Standing Male Figure
ca. 1480
Medium
Soft metalpoint, highlighted with white gouache (some touches of black chalk probably added by later hand), on ochre prepared paper
Dimensions
Overall: 6 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (17.5 x 7.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Harry G. Sperling Fund, and Gifts from Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins, Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998
Accession Number
1998.193
Tags
Art Historical Context
Filippino Lippi's *Standing Male Figure* (ca. 1480) captures the elegance of Florentine Renaissance draftsmanship. The son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino trained in the workshop of Sandro Botticelli and became a leading artist in late 15th-century Florence, blending graceful figures with intricate detail. This small-scale drawing, measuring just 6 7/8 x 2 15/16 inches, likely served as a preparatory study for a larger painting, showcasing Lippi's skill in rendering anatomy and pose with fluid precision. Executed in soft metalpoint—a Renaissance technique using a metal stylus on s...
About the Artist
Filippino Lippi · 1457–1504
Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...