Study of Anatomy (A Youth Drawing an Ecorché of a Standing Man)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over traces of black chalk or leadpoint
Dimensions
14-3/8 x 10 in. (36.5 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.105
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century · 1500–1640
The artist known only as Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century, remains one of the many unidentified figures whose works survive in museum collections today. Active between roughly 1500 and 1640, this individual produced drawings, ornamental panels, and devotional subjects during a transformative period in Italian art that bridged the late Renaissance and the emerging Baroque. With no rec...