Full-length Drapery Study, with Sketch of a Right Foot, c. 1580 - 1600
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Gift of Professor Alfred Moirexpand_more 2008.107.1
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This luminous drapery study appears to have been inspired by a figure the artist saw in a painting rather than by a live model. The garment resembles the habit of a Dominican friar (white tunic and scapular beneath a black cloak), a fact that may one day provide a clue to the artist's identity-or at least the altarpiece he or she was studying. Rather than carefully modeling the figure, the artist focused on the shimmering effects and energetic movement of the drapery, which twists and flutters around the turning body. Apparently having run out of room for the figure's right foot at the bottom of the sheet, the artists inserted a large-scale study of it close by.
Details
- Title
- Full-length Drapery Study, with Sketch of a Right Foot
- Artist Life
- (Urbino), c. 1535–1612
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2008.107.1
- Provenance
- Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1975, no. 91 as Sienese, for £45, to Moir; Alfred Moir, Santa Barbara (1975-2008; gave to MIA)
- Curator Approved
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