Study for the Christ Child in the Madonna of S. Simone (recto); Study of a Landscape (verso)
Federico Barocci
c. 1567
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk, with touches of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper
Dimensions
23.1 × 15.9 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202149
About the Artist
Federico Barocci · 1535–1612
Federico Barocci (c. 1535–1612) was an Italian painter from Urbino whose luminous, emotionally tender religious paintings made him one of the most original and influential artists of the late sixteenth century, bridging Mannerism and the early Baroque. Born in Urbino, the city of Raphael, he studied under Battista Franco and traveled to Rome, where he absorbed the lessons of Raphael, Correggio, an...