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Studies of a Man's Head and of His Hands
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Studies of a Man's Head and of His Hands

Medium

Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk and touches of red chalk, on blue-gray paper

Dimensions

11 x 16-1/4 in. (28 x 41.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1950

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Federico Barocci

1528–1612Duchy of Urbino

Italian miniaturist and painter who specialized in alterpieces. He worked in the Vatican for Pope Pius IV, where an attempt was made to murder him by poison. In injured health as a result, he returned to Urbino and died there. Comment on works: Religious