Studies of the Dead Christ supported by an Angel, with subsidiary studies for the same composition
Poppi (Francesco Morandini)
ca. 1570 · Red and black chalk · Drawings and Prints
A fine example of Poppi’s draftsmanship, these studies from a living model present three variations for the design of a dead Christ supported by an angel, and were preparatory for a panel painting of the Pietà (Cleveland, Private collection). A leading Florentine Mannerist painter, Poppi used here a sharp stick of red chalk to describe most precisely the naturalistic details of the main figure, placed at the center of the sheet, and adopted black chalk to draw the smaller variations of the composition seen at lower left.
- Artist
- Poppi (Francesco Morandini)
- Date
- ca. 1570
- Medium
- Red and black chalk
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2012
