Studies of a Seated Nude Male Figure
Giulio Cesare Procaccini
ca. 1602–05
Medium
Black chalk on blue paper
Dimensions
6 1/16 x 4 5/16in. (15.4 x 11cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1964
Accession Number
64.48.3
Tags
Male Nudes
About the Artist
Giulio Cesare Procaccini · 1574–1625
Painter and sculptor, son of Ercole Procaccini. Having moved to Milan with the rest of the family in the mid-1580s, he trained as a sculptor, perhaps in the workshop of Francesco Brambilla (ii), and then worked (1591–9) for the workshop of Milan Cathedral. Italian painter, printmaker.