Group of Warriors Standing, Circle of Perugino, late 15th–early 16th century


Group of Warriors Standing, late 15th–early 16th century, Tip of the brush and black ink, black wash, traces of black chalk, heightened with white, on dark brown tinted paper., 9 13/16 x 6 5/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Circle of Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469–died 1523 Fontignano), The composition of this drawing, depicting a group of standing soldiers, exists in several other versions by different hands, which may all derive from a lost original prototype. Similar figures are found in works by Pinturicchio and Perugino and may have been stock types that circulated in the studios of Umbrian artists, which were adapted for various types of subjects


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