. Verocchio. PUTTO. COLLECTION OF M. GUSTAVE DREYFUS, PARIS(By kind permission of M. G. Dreyfus) Face p. 70. >D O HHD OO <Q 5 6 EARLY SCULPTURE 71 in the Louvre we have examples of his studies from life.*There are nine studies of children, five on one sideof the sheet, four on the other, in all kinds of positions,rapidly sketched apparently from the same child as itchanged its action and attitude. Standing, sitting, lying,running, each movement and posture is as true to nature asan instantaneous photograph, and the figures are sketchedwith a touch as vivid and vigorous as that of Leonard
. Verocchio. PUTTO. COLLECTION OF M. GUSTAVE DREYFUS, PARIS(By kind permission of M. G. Dreyfus) Face p. 70. >D O HHD OO <Q 5 6 EARLY SCULPTURE 71 in the Louvre we have examples of his studies from life.*There are nine studies of children, five on one sideof the sheet, four on the other, in all kinds of positions,rapidly sketched apparently from the same child as itchanged its action and attitude. Standing, sitting, lying,running, each movement and posture is as true to nature asan instantaneous photograph, and the figures are sketchedwith a touch as vivid and vigorous as that of shall have occasion to refer later to this sheet ofdrawings in discussing the authenticity of the so-called Verrocchio Sketch-book. Here it is necessary only todraw attention to the similarity in construction of thenude bodies to the two putti above noticed. * Discovered by Morelli in the Depot of the Museum. The inscrip-tion on one side laudatory of Verrocchio is by a contemporary, to whomprobably the sheet originally belonged. The transliteration, publishedby M. de Chennevieres in the Gaz. des Be
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