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Rear View of Seated Man
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About this work
By the late 1600s, painters of religious subjects, such as Carlo Vimercati, sought to make the content of their church decorations more accessible to a general congregation through the use of dramatic gestures and observed naturalistic details. Such artists often relied on figure studies like this drawing of a posed studio assistant to capture the dress and physique of everyday people and thus imbue their paintings with realistic elements.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRear View of Seated Man, late 1600s?. Carlo Vimercati (Italian, 1660–1715). Red chalk heightened with white chalk; sheet: 27.8 x 17.8 cm (10 15/16 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Blumka, 1963.72
