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

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

• chalk
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Florentine

Production Reason

• body study
• figure study

Captions Added Later

Oben mittig (mit der Feder in Hellbraun): 4 [R]
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

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

CC BY-SA 4.0 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Genre

• study
• personal depiction

Main Motif

• body part (human)

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo Buonarroti

Primary

• 31A2 anatomy (non-medical)
• 31A26 postures of the legs
• 31A225 legs
• 31A2252 knee
• 31A25 postures and gestures of arms and hands
• 31A224 arms
• 31A214 bones of the arms
• 31A216 bones in general (human body)

Alternative Attribution

• Baccio Bandinelli draughtsman; by note on mount
• style of Luca Cambiaso draughtsman; by note on mount

Historic Attribution

• Michelangelo Buonarroti draughtsman