Studies of Hands (recto); Sketch of a Child's Head (verso)
c. 1586
Carletto Caliari
Carletto Caliari (Italian, 1570–1596)
Drawings
Studies of Hands (recto); Sketch of a Child's Head (verso), c. 1586. Carletto Caliari (Italian, 1570–1596). Charcoal (stumped in places) heightened with white chalk; black chalk with pen and brown ink; sheet: 27.5 x 17.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.549 The inscription that identifies the artist in brown ink on this drawing is not a signature but rather an identification of the artist by a later hand, perhaps an owner of the drawing.
- Maker/Artist
- Caliari, Carlo
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- charcoal (stumped in places) heightened with white chalk; black chalk with pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.5 x 17.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower center, in brown ink: di Carlo Caliari / figlio di Paulo Verone.
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1929.549
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Drawings by Old Italian Masters, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Old Master Drawings, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection, Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650, Stories From Storage
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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