Various Figure Studies

Filippino Lippi

c. 1493/1495

Various Figure Studies by Filippino Lippi

Medium

metalpoint heightened with white on ochre-prepared paper with borders by Vasari in brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 22 x 32.9 cm (8 11/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1991.190.1.d

About the Artist

Filippino Lippi · 14571504

Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...

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