Standing Nude Youth
Filippino Lippi
c. 1496
Medium
metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper
Dimensions
overall: 19.5 x 10.4 cm (7 11/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1991.190.1.b
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...