Studies of a Seated Youth in Armor, Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1505


Studies of a Seated Youth in Armor, ca. 1505, Point of brush and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, 7 1/2 x 7 1/16in. (19 x 18cm), Drawings, Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, Venice 1460/66?–1525/26 Venice), This celebrated drawing depicts a young model dressed in armor and positioned as though he were on horseback, his right arm raised and holding the shaft of a spear in his gloved hand. The figure is supplemented at upper right by a study of a helmet and, at lower left, by a detail of the armor


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