Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
<p>Between 1562 and 1566, Salviati was in Rome working on a commission for two large frescoes in the Sala Regia, a formal reception hall in the Vatican. This sheet is a single-figure study for the first of these, which depicts the peace treaty that Pope Alexander III and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa reached in Venice in 1177. The corresponding painted figure can be seen in the large crowd at right in the fresco.</p> <p>An example of the artist’s mature draftsmanship, the drawing demonstrates a range of techniques, from the carefully modeled face and the crumpled pleats of the sleeve to the delicate black chalk of the figure’s beard.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1562
- Medium
- Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Drawing
Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1562
- Medium
- Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1562-119035
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified