Studie van een op de grond ingeslapen mannelijk model

About this artwork

hoogte 225 mm x breedte 400 mm

Art Historical Context

Giacomo Cavedone’s “Studie van een op de grond ingeslapen mannelijk model” offers a quietly powerful glimpse into the artist’s working process. Created on paper measuring 225 by 400 millimeters, the drawing captures a male figure in a completely relaxed, unposed state, lying on the ground as though overcome by sleep. Cavedone, active in early seventeenth-century Bologna, belonged to the generation of artists who prized direct observation of the human body, moving away from idealized studio formulas toward more natural, lifelike studies. Such drawings were essential tools for Baroque painters....

About the Artist

Giacomo Cavedone

Italian, Sassuolo 1577–1660 Bologna