Dr. Malcolm W. Bick

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Perino del Vaga, Figure Studies [recto], c. 1530/1540, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1980.31.1.a

Figure Studies [recto]

Perino del Vaga · c. 1530/1540 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1980.31.1.a

Drawings of bodies fill the left half of this vertical, parchment-colored paper, and writing fills the right half. The drawings and writing are in dark brown ink, and lines from the other side of the sheet show through, creating blurred forms. On the left, several nude male bodies are loosely drawn and appear upside down in this view. Their actions are indistinct but they gesture and turn. The right half is filled with horizontal lines of hand-written text and numbers. A vertical line splitting the two halves was presumably made when folded in half at some point in the sheet's history.
Perino del Vaga, Figure Studies [verso], c. 1530/1540, pen and brown ink on laid paper (red chalk line across center), Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1980.31.1.b

Figure Studies [verso]

Perino del Vaga · c. 1530/1540 · pen and brown ink on laid paper (red chalk line across center) ·  Accession ID  1980.31.1.b

Ubaldo Gandolfi, The Apotheosis of San Vitale, 1781, pen and brown ink and black chalk with brown wash on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1981.28.1

The Apotheosis of San Vitale

Ubaldo Gandolfi · 1781 · pen and brown ink and black chalk with brown wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1981.28.1

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, A Boy with a Lute, c. 1740, black chalk and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on (faded) blue laid paper, Gift of the Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation, 1979.40.1

A Boy with a Lute

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · c. 1740 · black chalk and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on (faded) blue laid paper ·  Accession ID  1979.40.1