Seated Woman with Children (Caritas); branches at top right, ca. 1520?

Title

Seated Woman with Children (Caritas); branches at top right

Draughtsman

• Rosso Fiorentino

Verso

Studies of legs, knees and arms

Production Place

• Florence?

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• High Renaissance
• Florentine Mannerism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• coal?
• chalk?
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• pencil drawing
• charcoal drawing?
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Florentine

Production Reason

• figure study

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet unten links (mit der Feder in Braun): [g/t]uerra; (mit roter Kreide): Michel Angelo; verso oben mittig (mit der Feder in Hellbraun): 4 [R]
Verso oben rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Blütenkelch mit kurzem Stiel, mit zwei symmetrisch angesetzten, stilisierten Blättern [Bindedraht als Mittelachse]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Picture Copyright

© Städel Museum

Genre

• allegory

Main Motif

• Caritas
• woman
• child
• group of people

Persons Shown

• Caritas

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Baccio Bandinelli
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Mary
• Christ Child
• John the Baptist as a boy

Primary

• 42B742(2) mother and child(2), woman and child(2) (2) (2)
• 31AA2352 sitting on an elevation - AA - female human figure
• 31D1121 tot, toddler ~ the ages of man
• 41D9 (showing oneself) undressed, quasi-nude

Secondary

• 41D221(HEADSCARF) head-gear (HEADSCARF)
• 25G3(+22) trees (+ branch, stick)

Alternative Attribution

• Baccio Bandinelli draughtsman
• Art des Luca Cambiaso draughtsman

Historic Attribution

• Michelangelo Buonarroti draughtsman