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Studies of legs, knees and arms, ca. 1520?

Blatt: 381 x 259 mm

Physical Description: Red chalk, sample lines with black pen (chalk?) on bottom edge as well as traces of coal (?), framing line with black chalk on all sides, on ribbed laid paper, distance of chain lines (horizontal) |39|39|30|30|39|

Inventory Number: 3971

Object Number: 3971V Z

Status: Not on display

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About the Acquisition

In March 1815, the Frankfurt businessman and banker Johann Friedrich Städel bequeathed his entire fortune and art collection to a foundation which was to be named after him: the 'Städelsches Kunstinstitut'. However, he also dedicated the foundation to the citizens of Frankfurt immaterially, wishing it to be an "adornment and of practical use" to Frankfurt's citizenry. He was thus the first ordinary citizen in the German-speaking region to found a public art museum: the present-day Städel Museum. When he died, his collection comprised 476 paintings, some 4,600 drawings, almost 10,000 printed graphics and valuable books.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Studies of legs, knees and arms

Draughtsman

Rosso Fiorentino

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

Production Place

Florence?

Period Produced

16th century

School

Mannerism

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Red chalk, sample lines with black pen (chalk?) on bottom edge as well as traces of coal (?), framing line with black chalk on all sides, on ribbed laid paper, distance of chain lines (horizontal) |39|39|30|30|39|

Material

Technique

chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

Florentine

Production Reason

Captions Added Later: Oben mittig (mit der Feder in Hellbraun): 4 [R]
Oben rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

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