Studies of Children (Studies after a Mannequin), ca. 1520?

Title

Studies of Children (Studies after a Mannequin)

Draughtsman

• Baccio Bandinelli

Production Place

• Florence

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• High Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brown ink over black pen (chalk?), framing line with grey ink on all sides, on ribbed laid paper, distance of chain lines (vertical) |41|26|27|39|40|38|

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Florentine

Production Reason

• figure study
• movement study

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet (mit der Feder in Braun): figure et disegni intero di mano di M.° Bartolomeo bandinel[li]; unten links (mit schwarzem Stift): Baccio Bandinelli; unten rechts: 10'' 7''' br 9'' 11'''
Verso unten links Stempel der Sammlung Theodor Falkeisen und Johann Friedrich Huber, Basel (Lugt 1008); unten mittig Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Armbrust in einem Oval [58 x 52 mm, Bindedraht als Mittelachse]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• study
• nude
• personal depiction

Main Motif

• child
• group of people

Primary

• 31A23 postures of the human figure
• 48C5154 manikin, dummy-figure

Associative

• 92D1916 cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'